Literary vs. Legal Language

deadline for submissions: 
December 7, 2024
full name / name of organization: 
Bhavya and N.K.Agarwal
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**Call for Papers*
*Literary vs. Legal Language*

What is the difference between literary and legal languages ? Literary language is metaphorical, rhetorical and symbolic, whereas legal language touches the contours of objectivity, rationality and exactness. Literature deals with fictional and connotative narrative, while law is logically denotative.
Are the boundaries between two disciplines obliterated?
Is not literary language entering the domains of law?
Many a decostructive thinkers believe that all languages are literary. Sassure called all linguistic signs to be arbitrary. Is legal language completely objective, neutral and dispassionate? Or, some subjectivity is entering into it, though externally it might be objective.
Are there moments or indeterminate Postmodernism in Jurisprudence too?
The proposed volume claims to study this dialectics of subjectivity and objectivity in law.
These and several others related topics may be discussed in the volume.
Sub Themes:
*What is legal language?
*Legal vs Literary Language
*Subjectivity vs Objectivity
*Postmodernism and Jurisprudence
*Flux vs Stability
*Dialectics of neutrality and individuality in Law and Literature
*Literature and legal pronounements
*Law and literary imagination

Full length papers (at least 5000 words with proper citation) may be sent to nilanshu1973@yahoo.com with cc to bhavyaagarwal9989@gmail.com .

The book will be edited by N. K. Agarwal and Bhavya.

N.K.Agarwal is Professor of English at a Post-Graduate College of India. He is mostly interested in Contemporary Literary Theory.

Bhavya has done her LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice from Jindal Global Law School, O.P.Jindal Global University, Sonepat.
Her writings have been published by the University of Pittsburgh, Outlook India and Mainstream.
She has also worked with the Hon'ble Senior Judges of the Supreme Court of India.