Citation and Precedent: Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (New Directions in German Studies) - Hardcover

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Beebee, Thomas Oliver

 
9781441117908: Citation and Precedent: Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (New Directions in German Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1441117903 ISBN 13: 9781441117908
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2012

Synopsis

Among Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, Kleist, Kafka, Schmitt, and Schlink who were trained as legal scholars. Yet this list only hints at the complex interactions between German law and literature. It can be supplemented, for example, with the unique interventions of the legal system into literature, ranging from attempts to save literature from the tidal wave of Schund (pulp fiction) in the early twentieth century to audiences suing theaters over the improper production of classics in the twenty-first. The long list of instances where German literature cites law, or where German law serves literature as a precedent, signal the dream of German culture of a unity of interests and objectives between spheres of activity. Yet the very vitality of this dream stems from real historical and social processes that increasingly autonomize and separate these domains from each other.



Beebee examines the history of this dialectical tension through close readings of numerous cases in the modern era, ranging from Grimm to Schmitt.

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About the Author

Thomas O. Beebee is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Penn State University, USA. He is the author of Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 (Oxford University Press, 2008), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability (Penn State Press, 1994) and Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction (Penn State Press, 1990).

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Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1441117903
ISBN 13 
9781441117908
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
240

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