Butterfly, the Bride: Essays on Law, Narrative, and the Family

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Synopsis
Carol Weisbrod uses a variety of stories to raise important questions about how society, through law, defines relationships in the family. Beginning with a story most familiar from the opera Madame Butterfly, Weisbrod addresses issues such as marriage, divorce, parent-child relations and abuses, and non-marital intimate contact. Each chapter works with fiction or narratives inspired by biography or myth, ranging from the Book of Esther to the stories of Kafka. Weisbrod frames the book with running commentary on variations of the Madame Butterfly story, showing the ways in which fiction better expresses the complexities of intimate lives than does the language of the law. Butterfly, the Bride looks at law from the outside, using narrative to provide a fresh perspective on the issues of law and social structure---and individual responses to law. This book thoroughly explores relationships between inner and public lives by examining what is ordinarily classified as the sphere of private life---the world of family relationships.
Copyright:
1999

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780472022847
Related ISBNs:
9780472109210, 9780472089871
Publisher:
The University of Michigan Press
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Copyrighted By:
The University of Michigan Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Language Arts, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
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