Fitzpatrick, Peter (2014) Taking place: Westphalia and the poetics of law. London Review of International Law 2 (1), pp. 155-165. ISSN 2050-6325.
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Abstract
The poem has to keep its possibility. It cannot be rendered into an insistent meaning. Yet the poem is also a ‘way of happening’, a way of bringing possibility into happening. And Cixous would find an intimate tie linking poetry and the happening of history, an ever-generative history, and would find this at its ‘most compelling’ in ‘the texts of some Russian women poets’. So, a belated epigraph from Tsvetayeva: "What shall I do … " "with all this immensity" "in a measured world?" What follows is an awed companion-piece to Yoriko Otomo’s ‘Her proper name: a revisionist account of international law’. It is entirely amenable yet a matter of affinities rather than explicit interpretation. These affinities will be evoked by way of a shared terminology: time, feminine, law, myth, sovereign, Westphalia. Quotations in italics will be from the poem.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in London Review of International Law following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version - v.2(1), pp.155-165 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/lril/lru003 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Apr 2014 10:01 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:10 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/9508 |
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