Cultural Constructs and Legal Structures in Literary Discourses, Texts and Films -

The abundance of existing literary pieces across the globe demonstrates the cultural expectations acceptable in traditional and customary practices of society and surroundings. Whenever the cultural contexts are threatened, the legal context embraces the conflict and the controlled behavior. Therefore, cultural transmission is a manifestation of constituting cultural meaning, initiating discourse on law, or framing and reimagining law. The literary analyses examining cultural discourses and narratives render a valuable opportunity to negotiate legal and non-legal discourse in the conversational passages and in readings of the texts. The existing literature across the globe is a poetics that import legalities in literature or the literature with its complex hermeneutics manifests a lens of cultural meaning. In view of such critical scholarship in Humanities - the fiction writers and law fiction writers have been read respectively from the point of narrative legal genres and non-legal material, which in terms of Kelsenian legal philosophy theory has been classified as texts of transcendence, dualism, immanence, and pantheism. Many international acclaimed non-legal fiction writers such as Boccaccio, Hawthorne, Tolstoy, Kafka, Cather, Arimov, Chekhov, Rabindranath Tagore, Munshi Prechand, Salman Rushdie, V.S.Naipaul, besides the legal fiction writers such as John grisham, Steve Martin, William Diehl, Barbara Parkar, Brad Parks, etc. have dealt with implications of legality and its impact in cultural -social dicourse, which suggest a complex hermeneutic import of law and literature in the human life for their survival and sustenance. This Seminar opens up reader-centric possibilities and investigations in the existing pieces of literary texts in the light of deconstructing dichotomy of assumptions and presumptions, unveiling bad and good criticism in the cultural and social relationship, identifying and responding to the hermeneutic challenge, subverting the expectations of normative statutes. 

Abstract Proposal within the limit of 200 words and the Biodata in 50 characters are to be submitted online before 20th September, 2018 to the email ID - profjayshree@bnuniversity.ac.in OR your abstract proposal can be directly uploaded for this Seminar after logging in www.acla.org webpage account of the Self.