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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Law and literature"”.
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An analysis of psychological and legal conceptions of the defence of non-pathological criminal incapacity
… capacity presents challenges for both law and psychology because it acknowledges that psychological factors other than mental illness, are grounds for complete exculpation. In this sense, South African law differs from its Anglo-American counterparts as it recognises that …
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Propagandistas, vadios e outros manipuladores do direito na obra Quando o Diabo Reza de Mário de Carvalho
A leitura do romance Quando o diabo reza de Mário de Carvalho propõe uma procura da ética, da moral e do direito, que proporcione reflexão sobre os valores que constroem a pessoa e a projetam na sociedade e no Estado. Procura ver-se o direito na literatura, demonstrando-se que este texto literário …
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The use of legal provisions by civil society organisations to advance corporate governance in state-owned enterprises in South Africa
… that has caused tensions between citizens and the government. In doing so, civil society organisations demand accountability, transparency and citizen participation in state-owned enterprises governance. The problem is that their role in challenging state-owned enterprises is undefined in …
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Family, Feud, and the Conduct of War in Anglo-Saxon England
… society was built around the concept of feud, and it is clear from history, law, and literature that the twin concerns of family and vengeance remained pillars of Anglo-Saxon society and consciousness throughout the period. Given constant warfare and the cultural and social importance of …
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TRANSLATING GENRE: POST-2003 IRAQI FICTION AND CRITIQUES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
… explores Iraqi fiction written in Arabic and published in English translation since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and occupation. Reading in both Arabic and English, I focus on texts that Anglophone publishers market as genre fiction. Iraqi writers, I contend, use genre fictional conventions …
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The human right to medicines in sub-Saharan Africa
… man-made deliberations are also consequential, and can to some extent be influenced by regulation. The research question of this thesis therefore is: “can a human right to medicines be utilised to solve the problem of access to medicines in sub-Saharan Africa?”. In effect, in the last decade the …
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The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction
… examines representations of undocumented aliens and explores the issue of illegality in contemporary American immigration fiction. It takes as a fundamental premise that in immigration, status matters. The importance of immigration status in the "real world" is evident not only in ongoing …
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Sustainable use and the laws regulating trade in threatened species in South Africa: lessons from the USA
… threatened species are of major concern globally and undermines regulatory frameworks that seek to ensure the sustainable use of species for present and future generations. This study investigates the extent to which South African legislation provides for sustainable use and trade in species and …
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El caso de Mateo Alemán: La interaccion entre el derecho y la literatura en el informe de la mina de mercurio de Almaden y <i>El Guzman de Alfarache</i>
… of its workers, prisoners of the Crown, and galley men forced to work in the mercury exploitation. After one month of work, the assignment was cancelled, Alemán was forced to retire from his research, and his work was lost in the archives of the Habsburgs. A few years later, in 1598, …
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Experience on trial: criminal law and the modernist novel
… authority. By taking the primary examples of law and literature, this thesis argues that the criminal trial and realist novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries perfectly conform to this statement. But by the early twentieth-century, experience had, as Walter Benjamin put it, ‘fallen …
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Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000
Since Confederation enshrined Canada Customs’ mandate to seize “indecent and immoral” material, the nation’s borders have served as discursive sites of sexual censorship for the LGBTTQ lives and literatures that cross the line. While the Supreme Court’s decision in Little Sisters v. Canada (2000) …
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Place and displacement: the unsettling connection of women, property, and the law in British novels of the long nineteenth century
… thetenuous connection of women to property and place. A paradox of the era was that while women tended to be relegated to theconfines of the domestic realm as daughters, sisters, wives, or widows, it was also a home that they could not or did not own, and in which their continued residence …
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Disturbed Areas: Literature and Emergency Law in Kashmir and Northern Ireland
This thesis is a study of the literature of ‘disturbed areas’, the legal designation used to localise emergency powers in Kashmir and Northern Ireland. It focuses on the designation as a political euphemism, and on the ways literary texts reconstitute the realities and lived experiences that these …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
… taken for granted. But who made the rule? Why? And how is it enforced? This dissertation traces the history of proprietary authorship from the earliest distinctions between imitation and misappropriation in the humanist schoolroom, through the first recorded uses in English of the Latin legal …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… American truisms “individualism,” “blackness” and “invention.” Beginning with William Carlos Williams’ formulation of descent (as a practice necessary for establishing national literary identity) in <em>In the American Grain</em>, the project resolves around the question, How can the critic …