The course will be centred on the interdisciplinary relationship between law and literature. The lessons will first focus on the methodological aspects of this comparison, then on the legal aspects of some literary texts, diachronically chosen.
“Law and Literature: an interdisciplinary perspective “
TEXTS
--W.Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice: law and equity
--C.Marlowe, Doctor Faustus: the immoral contract
--M.Shelley, Frankenstein (1818): legal person
--H.G.Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896): who is a person ?
--Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper (2004): problems of bioethics
--John Boyne, The Boy with the Striped Pyjamas (2007): children’s rights
CRITICAL TEXTS
-Ian Ward, Law and Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 3-39.
-D.Carpi, "L'atto dell'interpretazione in The Merchant of Venice", in The Merchant of Venice, dal testo alla scena, a cura di Mariangela Tempera, Clueb, Bologna, 1994.
-D.Carpi, “Legge e letteratura”, Pòlemos, 1/2007.
-D.Carpi, Introduction to D.Carpi ed., The Concept of Equity in Law and Literature, Winter, Heidelberg,2007, pp. 7-20.
-D.Carpi, Introduction to Bioethics and Biolaw Through Literature, DeGruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2011, pp.1-22.
-D. Carpi, “Violation of Human Rights in Holocaust /Post-Holocaust Era”, Pólemos, 8/1, 2014, pp175-192.
EXAM: The exam will be an oral discussion on the texts in the program, including the critical texts
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