A Theory of Law and Literature. Across Two Arts of Compromising, Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law, Leiden.

The volume reflects on the relationship between literature and law from a theoretical perspective, starting from how literature and law ‘function’. In particular, in the wake of Francis Orlando's Freudian theory of literature and in the wake of Ignacio Matte Blanco's reflections, the volume seeks to show how the two disciplines tend to mediate a series of conflicts between norms and transgressions - between a principle of normativity and a principle of counter-normativity - and how they share a profound tension towards compromise. The different declinations that conflict and compromise assume in literary and legal discourse are also discussed on the basis of some exemplary cases (Brecht, Von Kleist).