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Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation is a
path-breaking collection of some of the world's leading cultural
legal scholars addressing issues of law, representation and the
image. Law is constituted in and through the representations that
hold us in their thrall, and this book focuses on the ways in which
cultural legal representations not only reflect or contribute to an
understanding of law, but constitute the very fabric of legality
itself. As such, each of these 'readings' of cultural texts takes
seriously the cultural as a mode of envisioning, constituting and
critiquing the law. And the theoretically sophisticated approaches
utilised here encompass more than simply an engagement with
'harmless entertainment'. Rather they enact and undertake specific
political and critical engagements with timely issues, such as: the
redressing of past wrongs; recognising and combatting structural
injustices; and orienting our political communities in relation to
uncertain futures. Envisioning Legality thereby presents a cultural
legal studies that provides the means for engaging in robust,
sustained and in-depth encounters with the nature and role of law
in a global, mediated world.
Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation is a
path-breaking collection of some of the world's leading cultural
legal scholars addressing issues of law, representation and the
image. Law is constituted in and through the representations that
hold us in their thrall, and this book focuses on the ways in which
cultural legal representations not only reflect or contribute to an
understanding of law, but constitute the very fabric of legality
itself. As such, each of these 'readings' of cultural texts takes
seriously the cultural as a mode of envisioning, constituting and
critiquing the law. And the theoretically sophisticated approaches
utilised here encompass more than simply an engagement with
'harmless entertainment'. Rather they enact and undertake specific
political and critical engagements with timely issues, such as: the
redressing of past wrongs; recognising and combatting structural
injustices; and orienting our political communities in relation to
uncertain futures. Envisioning Legality thereby presents a cultural
legal studies that provides the means for engaging in robust,
sustained and in-depth encounters with the nature and role of law
in a global, mediated world.
In correspondence and conversation, James Joyce kept himself aloof
from his age, and denigrated recent art and thought at almost every
opportunity. 'In the last two hundred years, ' he declared, 'we
haven't had a great thinker.' This book reveals that in spite of
his protestations Joyce was profoundly influenced by one of the
major figures of nineteenth-century culture, the composer Richard
Wagner. Timothy Martin documents Joyce's exposure to Wagner's
operas, and defines a pervasive Wagnerian presence in his work,
identifying scores of allusions. Wagner emerges as an important
source in the development of literary modernism, and - alongside
Flaubert and Ibsen - as one of Joyce's most important influences
from the previous century. The revisionary impact of this empirical
study in cultural history was to present Joyce as far more a child
of the nineteenth century than he wished to acknowledge, much more
than Joyce's students historically recognised
This is an account of the foundation legend of Rome, how the twins Remus and Romulus were miraculously suckled by a she-wolf, and how Romulus founded Rome and Remus was killed at the moment of the foundation. What does the story mean? Why have a twin, if he has to be killed off? This is the first historical analysis of the origins and development of the myth, and it offers important insights into the nature of pre-imperial Rome and the ways in which myths could be created and elaborated in a nonliterate society.
Sets a new trajectory for considering the intertwined relationship
between theology and law through speculative cinema Offers 7 close
readings of Hollywood speculative fiction blockbusters as
theological and jurisprudential texts: Shyamalan's Unbreakable,
Snyder's Man of Steel, Lucas and Disney's Star Wars, Nolan's The
Dark Knight & The Dark Knight Rises, Proyas' I, Robot, Nolfi's
The Adjustment Bureau and Jackson's The Hobbit Explores key themes
of law including justice, the exception, law's violence,
revolution, law's universality, sovereignty and property as theft
Explores key themes of theology including the nature of evil, myth
and mysticism, atonement, sacrifice, compassionate acts, visions of
the divine and charity as gift Through close readings of a range of
popular Hollywood speculative fiction films, Timothy Peters
explores how fictional worlds, particularly those that 'make
strange' the world of the viewer, can render visible and make
explicit the otherwise opaque theologies of modern law. He
illustrates that speculative cinema's genres of estrangement
provide a way for us to see and engage the theological concepts of
modern law in our era of late capitalism, global empire and the
crises of neoliberalism.
Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative
fiction films Shyamalan's Unbreakable, Snyder's Man of Steel,
Lucas's and Disney's Star Wars, Nolan's The Dark Knight & The
Dark Knight Rises, Proyas' I, Robot, Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau
and Jackson's The Hobbit Timothy Peters explores how fictional
worlds, particularly those that 'make strange' the world of the
viewer, can render visible and make explicit the otherwise opaque
theologies of modern law. He illustrates that speculative cinema's
genres of estrangement provide a way for us to see and engage the
theological concepts of modern law in our era of late capitalism,
global empire and the crises of neoliberalism.
An easy-to-understand guide to psychopharmacology for non-medical
helping professionals Basic Psychopharmacology for Mental Health
Professionals provides up-to-date information on the latest
medications in easy-to-understand language. This practical and
engaging text includes numerous case studies that illustrate the
skills needed for successful practice in the field. The 3rd Edition
is updated to the DSM-5, and it includes updated information and
research on the newest medications. Additional clinical case
examples have also been added throughout the text.
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