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Author Beebee, Thomas O.

Title Citation and precedent : conjunctions and disjunctions of German law and literature / Thomas O. Beebee.

Publication Info. New York : Continuum, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New directions in German studies ; v. 3
New directions in German studies ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 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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Subject Law and literature -- Germany.
Law and literature.
Germany.
German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
German literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Intertextuality.
Intertextuality.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Beebee, Thomas O. Citation and precedent. New York : Continuum, ©2012 (DLC) 2011023811
ISBN 9781441155801 (electronic book)
1441155805 (electronic book)
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9781283380256
9781441117908
1441117903