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On Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing: Discourses of Law

Autor Thomas Giddens
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What are the implications of comics for law? Tackling this question, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics explores the epistemological dimensions of comics and the way this once-maligned medium can help think about – and reshape – the form of law. Traversing comics, critical, and cultural legal studies, it seeks to enrich the theorisation of comics with a critical aesthetics that expands its value and significance for law, as well as knowledge more generally. It argues that comics’ multimodality – its hybrid structure, which represents a meeting point of text, image, reason, and aesthetics – opens understanding of the limits of law’s rational texts by shifting between multiple frames and modes of presentation. Comics thereby exposes the way all forms of knowledge are shaped out of an unstructured universe, becoming a mask over this chaotic ‘beyond’. This mask of knowing remains haunted – by that which it can never fully capture or represent. Comics thus models knowledge as an infinity of nested frames haunted by the chaos without structure. In such a model, the multiple aspects of law become one region of a vast and bottomless cascade of perspectives – an infinite multiframe that extends far beyond the traditional confines of the comics page, rendering law boundless.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138224032
ISBN-10: 1138224030
Pagini: 246
Ilustrații: 29 Halftones, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Discourses of Law

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 On Comics and Other Ways of Knowing
2 A Ghostless Machine
3 The Irrational Threat
4 Horrific Jurisprudence
5 On Haunted Masks
6 Redrawing the Law
Appendix A: Details of Comics Discussed
Appendix B: Text from Figures
Index

Notă biografică

Thomas Giddens is senior lecturer in law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He researches critical, comics, and cultural legal studies. He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance in 2013 and edited the collection Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law (Routledge 2015). He also edits the on-going ‘Graphic Justice’ special collection at The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship and is a founding Co-Director of St Mary’s Centre for Law and Culture.

Descriere

Tapping into the recent ‘turn’ towards literary, cultural and visual concerns in legal studies, this book examines the critical value that comics can bring to law. Situated in-between the rational, textual, aesthetic and the visual, comics are, this book demonstrates, uniquely able to explore the limits of the legal text; and, in expanding legal discourse, to offer new ways of figuring the future of law.