A story of rights: from word and conceptualisation to law and cultural narrative
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Durant, A. 2017. A story of rights: from word and conceptualisation to law and cultural narrative. The Journal of English Language and Literature (JELL). 63 (4), pp. 623-640. https://doi.org/10.15794/jell.2017.63.4.001
Type | Article |
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Title | A story of rights: from word and conceptualisation to law and cultural narrative |
Authors | Durant, A. |
Abstract | Humanities scholars have recently begun to use the phrase ‘narrating rights’ as a way of describing an increasingly discussed area of intersection between legal, ethical, and literary topics. This article examines the conceptual basis and directions of that emergent area of work. It outlines features of ‘rights’ as generally understood in law, along with relevant associated issues; it explains how, in the complex history of the English word rights, that word has conveyed different, often contested notions which persist into contemporary thinking; and it concludes with comments and queries regarding the challenges which face studies in humanities in using ‘narrative’ as a way into understanding rights. In developing its arguments, the article highlights the interconnectedness of linguistic, literary and legal aspects of political and cultural topics, and encourages further interdisciplinary work. |
Research Group | Law and Politics |
Publisher | The English Language and Literature Association of Korea |
Journal | The Journal of English Language and Literature (JELL) |
ISSN | 1016-2283 |
Publication dates | |
31 Dec 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 05 Jan 2018 |
Accepted | 27 Dec 2017 |
Output status | Published |
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Copyright Statement | Copyright © The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK). All right reserved. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.15794/jell.2017.63.4.001 |
Language | English |
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