%0 Journal Article
%T Some Thoughts on American Legal Culture: the Legal ¡®Abject¡¯ in Arthur Miller¡¯s The Crucible and in William Gaddis¡¯ A Frolic of His Own.
%A Anna-Maria Konsta
%J Intellectum
%D 2009
%I Intellectum Scientific Society
%X The paper explores through the analysis of the novels ¡°The Crucible¡± by Arthur Miller and ¡°A Frolic of His Own¡± by William Gaddis the way people who are initially subjects of law, i.e. holders of rights and obligations, can be transformed by the law and through the law into ¡®abjects¡¯. An ¡®abject¡¯ is considered to be a person who at some point comes in contact with ¡®the fragility of the law¡¯; in other words with actions that take place when the limits and rules fall apart and transform people into abjects of law, a ¡®dead body¡¯.
%K american legal culture
%K The Crucible Arthur Miller
%K A Frolic of His Own William Gaddis
%K legal subject
%K subjects of law
%K legal pluralism theories
%K 'abjects' of law
%K fragility of the law
%K contemporary discussion of legal culture
%K meaning of legal subject
%K Julia Kristeva Approaching Abjection
%K John Proctor
%K Reverend Parris
%K Oscar Crease
%U http://intellectum.org/articles/issues/intellectum6/en/ITL06p021032_Some%20Thoughts%20on%20American%20Legal%20Culture_the%20Legal%20Abject_Anna-Maria%20Konsta.pdf