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This collection explores the heterogeneous places we have
traditionally been taught to term 'islands.' It stages a
conversation on the very idea of 'island-ness', thus contributing
to a new field of research at the crossroads of law, geography,
literature, urban planning, politics, arts, and cultural studies.
The contributions to this volume discuss the notion of island-ness
as a device triggering the imagination, triggering narratives and
representations in different creative fields; they explore the
interactions between legal, socio-political, and fictional
approaches to remoteness and the 'state of insularity,' policy
responses to both remoteness and boundaries on different scales,
and the insular legal framing of geographical remoteness. The
product of a cross-disciplinary exchange on islands, this edited
volume will be of great interest to those working in the fields of
Island Studies, as well as literary studies scholars, geographers,
and legal scholars.
This volume investigates interdisciplinary intersections between
law and the humanities from the Renaissance to the present day. It
allows for fruitful encounters between different disciplines: from
literature to science, from the visual arts to the post-human, from
the postmodern novel's experimentation to most recent approaches
towards the legal interpretation of literary texts. This productive
dialogue fosters original perspectives in the interpretation of and
reflection upon identity, justice, power and human rights and
values, thus underlining the role of literature in the articulation
of relevant cultural issues pertaining to specific periods.
In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of
social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political
practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive
force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of
normative identity and at the same time of alterity. The essays of
the collection address the manifold articulations of this topic,
demonstrating how the inscription of the body within the discursive
spheres of gender identity, sexuality, law, and politics align its
materiality with discourses whose effects are themselves material.
The aesthetic and performative dimension of law inform the debates
on the juridical constitution of authority, as well as its
reflection on the formation and the moulding of individual
subjectivity. Moreover, the inherently theatrical elements of the
law find an analogy in the popular theatre, where juridical
practices are represented, challenged, occasionally subverted or
created. The works analyzed in the volume, in their ample spectre
of topics and contexts aim at demonstrating how in the Renaissance
period the body was the privileged focus of the social, legal and
cultural imagination.
Starting from the debate between the two cultures, the book
analyzes the relationship between literature and science in the
last years of the twentieth century in the light of scientific
theories which universally underline both their indeterminacy and
their lack of universal values (Relativity Theory, Quantum
Mechanics, the Uncertainty Principle, Chaos Theory). Scientific
theories are echoed in literary texts but also a reverse influence
from literature to science has taken place. In his scientific
tetralogy John Banville analyzes the figures of those scientists
who contributed to a paradigm shift in the world view from the
early modernity to the present. His interest is not exclusively
focused on epistemology but rather on the creative mind of the
scientist. Science appears to follow the same epiphanic creative
process as literature in its understanding of, and theorizing upon,
an enigmatic sort of reality.
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