- Institute Anglistik
University of Giessen
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 B
35394 Giessen, Germany
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, English and American Studies, Department MemberRheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Recht als Kultur", Department Member, and 2 moreadd
- Literature, Gender Studies, Critical Theory, Narratology, American Literature, Narrative Studies, and 51 morePoint of View, Sociology of Law, Critical Security Studies, Law and Literature, Intellectual History, Law and Society, Criminal Law, Law, Law & Literature, Law and Humanities, Narrative Theory, Narrative, Common Law, Cultural Studies, Human Rights Theory, Cultural Theory, Culture, Humanities, Migration, Critical Legal Theory, Critical Legal Studies, Fredric Jameson, Politics and Literature, Popular Culture, Queer Theory, Legal Theory, Jurisprudence, Philosophy Of Law, Legal interpretation, Affect Studies, Cultural Transformation, Legal Pluralism, Socio-legal studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, Human Rights, Posthumanism, Refugees, Citizenship, Immigration, Television Studies, Film and Media Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Queer Theory and Queer Studies, Class, Sexuality, Media, Queer Studies, The Body, Elizabeth Grosz, and Cult televisionedit
- GRETA OLSON is Professor of English and American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen and was F... moreGRETA OLSON is Professor of English and American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen and was Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” in Bonn (2014, 2016). She is a general editor of the European Journal of English Studies (EJES), and the co-founder of the European Network for Law and Literature.
At the University of Giessen, I wish to facilitate work on the nexus between political and artistic practices and academic analysis, and am interested in mentoring projects concerning legal pluralism/law and literature/cultural approaches to law, the politics of form, critical media studies, American Studies, and feminism and sexuality studies. As a general editor of EJES (http://essenglish.org/ejes/), I wish to encourage proposals for special issues that span divides between cultural theory, literary analysis, and linguistics and reflect on the study of English within Europe. With Jeanne Gaakeer, I run the European Network for Law and Literature Research.edit
The European Journal of English Studies is calling for proposals for the topics of special issues of the journal that will be published in 2026. EJES presents work of the highest quality in Anglophone critical theory, literary,... more
The European Journal of English Studies is calling for proposals for the topics of special issues of the journal that will be published in 2026. EJES presents work of the highest quality in Anglophone critical theory, literary, linguistic, cultural, media, and sexuality studies. This coheres with the plurality of English and Anglophone studies in Europe and relates to the journal's association with the European Society for the Study of English.
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Rechtsgefühle (feelings about law and justice) influence legal processes, politics as well as attitudes towards law, and have centrally impacted legal history. Using Rudolph von Jhering’s The Struggle for Law (1872) as a point of... more
Rechtsgefühle (feelings about law and justice) influence legal processes, politics as well as attitudes towards law, and have centrally impacted legal history. Using Rudolph von Jhering’s The Struggle for Law (1872) as a point of departure, the essays explore ‘legal feelings’ as a sensus juridicus – a judge’s effort to make legal norms fit the facts at hand –, as the emotions evoked by laws and legal processes, and as catalysts for legal reforms. Rechtsgefühle prove themselves pertinent with regard to the history of emotions, in respect to neuroscientific approaches to law and calls for computational law, and in terms of the ever thorny topic of how law should differ from politics. The authors argue for a plurality of Rechtsgefühle.
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Free Access until the end of October: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13825577.2022.2091323 In a dialogue, the authors discuss controversies in feminisms and their hopes for feminist futures. The first sections dismantle... more
Free Access until the end of October: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13825577.2022.2091323
In a dialogue, the authors discuss controversies in feminisms and their hopes for feminist futures. The first sections dismantle oppositional catfight narratives regarding feminisms and highlight the misogynist and transphobic cultural-political work they perform. Feminists and trans activists find common cause in resisting the subordination and control of womxn’s and trans persons’ bodies. Later sections outline an activist approach to doing feminisms online, while asking participants to keep the capitalist embeddedness of social media in mind. Body-positive activism and body neutrality are explored as strategies of resistance. Rather than adhering to a narrative of opposition, the authors advocate for acknowledging the common ground that shared vulnerability holds for community building and mobilising political agency. Healing and points of joy are sought in connection.
In a dialogue, the authors discuss controversies in feminisms and their hopes for feminist futures. The first sections dismantle oppositional catfight narratives regarding feminisms and highlight the misogynist and transphobic cultural-political work they perform. Feminists and trans activists find common cause in resisting the subordination and control of womxn’s and trans persons’ bodies. Later sections outline an activist approach to doing feminisms online, while asking participants to keep the capitalist embeddedness of social media in mind. Body-positive activism and body neutrality are explored as strategies of resistance. Rather than adhering to a narrative of opposition, the authors advocate for acknowledging the common ground that shared vulnerability holds for community building and mobilising political agency. Healing and points of joy are sought in connection.
Research Interests: Feminist Theory, Feminist Disability Studies, Gay And Lesbian Studies, LGBT Issues, Media Activism, and 12 moreFeminism, Social Exclusion, Vulnerability, History of Feminism, Affect (Cultural Theory), Politics of the Body, Feminism and Social Justice, Radicalism, New Media and Political Activism, Decolonial Feminism, Black and White Feminism, and Lesbian and Gay History
Episode is in German. You can find the episode with the following link: https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/folge-2-greta-olson-und-michael-knipper/id1586597357?i=1000535991618 Research LAB | 01.07.2021 Wie kann in Wissenschaft... more
Episode is in German.
You can find the episode with the following link:
https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/folge-2-greta-olson-und-michael-knipper/id1586597357?i=1000535991618
Research LAB | 01.07.2021
Wie kann in Wissenschaft und Forschung über Grenzen hinweg gearbeitet werden? In der zweiten Folge des Research LAB der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen diskutiert Prof. Dr. Greta Olson von der Anglistik mit dem Gießener Zentrum für Materialforschung mit dem Medizinhistoriker PD Dr. Michael Knipper zu Fächer- und Landesgrenzen, auf Einladung von Martha Oelschläger und Cornelia Walter vom Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft.
You can find the episode with the following link:
https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/folge-2-greta-olson-und-michael-knipper/id1586597357?i=1000535991618
Research LAB | 01.07.2021
Wie kann in Wissenschaft und Forschung über Grenzen hinweg gearbeitet werden? In der zweiten Folge des Research LAB der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen diskutiert Prof. Dr. Greta Olson von der Anglistik mit dem Gießener Zentrum für Materialforschung mit dem Medizinhistoriker PD Dr. Michael Knipper zu Fächer- und Landesgrenzen, auf Einladung von Martha Oelschläger und Cornelia Walter vom Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft.
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Author’s Manuscript of Greta Olson, "Legal Facts, Affective Truths, and Changing Narratives in Trials Involving Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo,” Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. Eds. Paul Dawson and Maria Mäkelä.... more
Author’s Manuscript of Greta Olson, "Legal Facts, Affective Truths, and Changing Narratives in Trials Involving Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo,” Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. Eds. Paul Dawson and Maria Mäkelä. London and New York: Routledge, Forthcoming.
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction appeared to augur change regarding how sexual violence and coercion are understood and was heralded as a triumph of the #MeToo movement. Patterns of victim shaming were disrupted, and the legal obfuscation of rape as recognizable only when demonstrable physical threat occurs was challenged. The movement can be regarded as a form of transitional justice that has been created by affective truths and which addresses the failures of procedural law. An analysis of the trial transcripts, and the contest of narratives they record, demonstrates that exultation about Weinstein's conviction is shortsighted. The verdict, like the trial's outcome, is mixed.
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction appeared to augur change regarding how sexual violence and coercion are understood and was heralded as a triumph of the #MeToo movement. Patterns of victim shaming were disrupted, and the legal obfuscation of rape as recognizable only when demonstrable physical threat occurs was challenged. The movement can be regarded as a form of transitional justice that has been created by affective truths and which addresses the failures of procedural law. An analysis of the trial transcripts, and the contest of narratives they record, demonstrates that exultation about Weinstein's conviction is shortsighted. The verdict, like the trial's outcome, is mixed.
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Olson, Greta and Laura Borchert. "Transing / Narrative Authority, Affective Unreliability, and Transing Law." Research Handbook in Law and Literature. Eds. Peter Goodrich, Daniela Gandorfer, Cecilia Gebruers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar... more
Olson, Greta and Laura Borchert. "Transing / Narrative Authority, Affective Unreliability, and Transing Law." Research Handbook in Law and Literature. Eds. Peter Goodrich, Daniela Gandorfer, Cecilia Gebruers. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. 378-400.
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Author’s manuscript of: Olson, Greta (2023). “Metaphor“ / “Metaphoric Fictionality in Poems about Migration and in Anti-Immigration Discourse.” Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited. Eds. Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard, Stefan... more
Author’s manuscript of: Olson, Greta (2023). “Metaphor“ / “Metaphoric Fictionality in Poems about Migration and in Anti-Immigration Discourse.” Fictionality and Literature: Core Concepts Revisited. Eds. Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard, Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, James Phelan, Richard Walsh, Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen, Simona Zetterberg-Nielsen. Ohio State UP. 182-211.
This essay examines the relationship between fictionality and tropes in visual and verbal images of immigration to argue that "metaphorical imagining" constitutes a form of fictionality.
This essay examines the relationship between fictionality and tropes in visual and verbal images of immigration to argue that "metaphorical imagining" constitutes a form of fictionality.
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Author's manuscript of Greta Olson. "Trans* Time and the Internationalization of Trans Studies." Trans* Time - Projecting Transness in European (TV) Series. Ed. Danae Gallo González. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2021: 191-202. Print.... more
Author's manuscript of Greta Olson. "Trans* Time and the Internationalization of Trans Studies." Trans* Time - Projecting Transness in European (TV) Series. Ed. Danae Gallo González. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2021: 191-202. Print.
Greta Olson's afterword examines the debates concerning ambivalences of trans visibility; white Anglophone (and US American) privilege in trans representations and trans studies more widely, and the need for greater internationalization; and how more nuanced debates about trans lives and trans representations have been occurring during the past few years.
Greta Olson's afterword examines the debates concerning ambivalences of trans visibility; white Anglophone (and US American) privilege in trans representations and trans studies more widely, and the need for greater internationalization; and how more nuanced debates about trans lives and trans representations have been occurring during the past few years.
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Olson, Greta. "Celebrating Feminist Responses to Populist Politics." European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 25.2 (2021): 111-112.
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This essay examines the affective politics of online vitriol in the era of Trump, the fijirst Twitter president. Trump’s use of Twitter shapes the affective resonances of his presidency by fueling experiences of love as well as... more
This essay examines the affective politics of online vitriol in the era of
Trump, the fijirst Twitter president. Trump’s use of Twitter shapes the
affective resonances of his presidency by fueling experiences of love as well as indignation. These dynamics are unpacked by examining the online style of Donald Trump and Mike Cernovich, a self-appointed spokesman for MAGA and the New Right. The essay fijirst outlines how affect theory helps to comprehend the emotional politics of Trump’s presidency in a manner that goes beyond notions of its simply invoking hatred. Second, the essay argues that social media platforms create pleasurable in-group community experiences that function to produce collective support for Trump.
Olson, Greta (2020). “Love and Hate Online – Affect Politics in the Era of Trump.” Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol. Ed. Sara Polak, and Daniel Trottier. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP. 156-77.
Trump, the fijirst Twitter president. Trump’s use of Twitter shapes the
affective resonances of his presidency by fueling experiences of love as well as indignation. These dynamics are unpacked by examining the online style of Donald Trump and Mike Cernovich, a self-appointed spokesman for MAGA and the New Right. The essay fijirst outlines how affect theory helps to comprehend the emotional politics of Trump’s presidency in a manner that goes beyond notions of its simply invoking hatred. Second, the essay argues that social media platforms create pleasurable in-group community experiences that function to produce collective support for Trump.
Olson, Greta (2020). “Love and Hate Online – Affect Politics in the Era of Trump.” Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol. Ed. Sara Polak, and Daniel Trottier. Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP. 156-77.
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Peter Goodrich (2023) From law and literature to legality and affect, Law
and Humanities, 17:1, 199-203, DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2205329
Review for Olson, Greta (2022) "From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect."
and Humanities, 17:1, 199-203, DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2205329
Review for Olson, Greta (2022) "From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect."
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Greta Olson (GO) kindly agreed to respond to a series of questions generated through my encounter with her new book. Some of these questions are straightforward, while others are intended to investigate the edges and the center of her... more
Greta Olson (GO) kindly agreed to respond to a series of questions generated through my encounter with her new book. Some of these questions are straightforward, while others are intended to investigate the edges and the center of her project; that is, they reflect my impressions and express my hopes and fears about where her project comes from, where it is headed, and what its purpose is now. The latter questions are in their nature provocative, and I anticipated and encouraged frank pushback. As you will see, I have not been disappointed in my expectation. I hope you enjoy reading this frank exchange!
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Harnessing Hate: The Turn to Passion in Law and Literature Greta Olson's remarkable book "From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect" (Oxford University Press 2022) reinvigorates the discipline of law and literature by re-envisioning... more
Harnessing Hate: The Turn to Passion in Law and Literature
Greta Olson's remarkable book "From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect" (Oxford University Press 2022) reinvigorates the discipline of law and literature by re-envisioning it-indeed by transforming it altogether. While Olson maintains that this new discipline should continue to be called "Law and Literature" for "historical and institutional" reasons, the title will apply to a greatly expanded subject matter, develop new models and methods for analysis, and deploy those models for different purposes (19).
The review is followed by a provocative exchange between Olson and Majeske in which sparks fly.
Greta Olson's remarkable book "From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect" (Oxford University Press 2022) reinvigorates the discipline of law and literature by re-envisioning it-indeed by transforming it altogether. While Olson maintains that this new discipline should continue to be called "Law and Literature" for "historical and institutional" reasons, the title will apply to a greatly expanded subject matter, develop new models and methods for analysis, and deploy those models for different purposes (19).
The review is followed by a provocative exchange between Olson and Majeske in which sparks fly.
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Majeske, Andrew. “A Review of Greta Olson’s Forthcoming Book: With a Sneak Preview of Issue 73: Literature, Law, and the Idea of Justice”. New American Studies Journal: A Forum, no. 1, (2022)
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This chapter queries the meanings of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s conviction in early 2020 for charges of sexual force and rape in People of the State of New York v. Harvey Weinstein. Olson, Greta (2022). “Legal Facts,... more
This chapter queries the meanings of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s conviction in early 2020 for charges of sexual force and rape in People of the State of New York v. Harvey Weinstein.
Olson, Greta (2022). “Legal Facts, Affective Truths, and Changing Narratives in Trials Involving Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo.” Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. Ed. Paul Dawson and Maria Mäkelä, London and New York: Routledge. 179-192.
Olson, Greta (2022). “Legal Facts, Affective Truths, and Changing Narratives in Trials Involving Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo.” Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. Ed. Paul Dawson and Maria Mäkelä, London and New York: Routledge. 179-192.
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Rechtsgefühle (feelings about law and justice) influence legal processes, politics as well as attitudes towards law, and have centrally impacted legal history. Using Rudolph von Jhering’s The Struggle for Law (1872) as a point of... more
Rechtsgefühle (feelings about law and justice) influence legal processes, politics as well as attitudes towards law, and have centrally impacted legal history. Using Rudolph von Jhering’s The Struggle for Law (1872) as a point of departure, the essays explore ‘legal feelings’ as a sensus juridicus – a judge’s effort to make legal norms fit the facts at hand –, as the emotions evoked by laws and legal processes, and as catalysts for legal reforms. Rechtsgefühle prove themselves pertinent with regard to the history of emotions, in respect to neuroscientific approaches to law and calls for computational law, and in terms of the ever thorny topic of how law should differ from politics. The authors argue for a plurality of Rechtsgefühle.
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Introduction to a special issue of the peer-reviewed open access journal On_Culture, co-edited with Greta Olson.
The complete special issue can be accessed here:
https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-3/
The complete special issue can be accessed here:
https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-3/
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Olson, Greta with Janna Wessels. “Imag(in)ing Human Rights: Deindividualizing, Victimizing, and Universalizing Images of Refugees in the United States and Germany.” The State of Human Rights: Historical Genealogies, Historical... more
Olson, Greta with Janna Wessels. “Imag(in)ing Human Rights: Deindividualizing, Victimizing, and Universalizing Images of Refugees in the United States and Germany.” The State of Human Rights: Historical Genealogies, Historical Controversies, and Cultural Imaginaries. Ed. Kerstin Schmidt and Margaretha Schweiger-Wilhelm, foreword by Saskia Sassen. Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian America Academy. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. 249-264.
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Interview with Greta Olson by Dieter Axt. “Feel Empowered to Tell Your Own Legal-Cultural Story.” Anamorphosis 5.1 (2019): 317-28.
http://rdl.org.br/seer/index.php/anamps/issue/view/20/showToc
http://rdl.org.br/seer/index.php/anamps/issue/view/20/showToc
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Olson, Greta. “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse." Narrative and Metaphor in Law. Eds. Robert Weisberg and Michael Hanne. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 19-36. Print. This... more
Olson, Greta. “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse." Narrative and Metaphor in Law. Eds. Robert Weisberg and Michael Hanne. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 19-36. Print.
This is the author's version of the published essay “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse,” with an added reference to Lynne Huffer’s title, which was missing in the published version.
This is the author's version of the published essay “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse,” with an added reference to Lynne Huffer’s title, which was missing in the published version.
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Olson, Greta and Sonja Schillings, eds. “Law Undone: De-humanizing, Queering, and Dis-abling the Law – Further Arguments for Law’s Pluralities.” Spec. issue of On_Culture 3 (2017): 2-11. Introduction to the issue.... more
Olson, Greta and Sonja Schillings, eds. “Law Undone: De-humanizing, Queering, and Dis-abling the Law – Further Arguments for Law’s Pluralities.” Spec. issue of On_Culture 3 (2017): 2-11.
Introduction to the issue. https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/onculture/issue/view/86
Introduction to the issue. https://journals.ub.uni-giessen.de/onculture/issue/view/86
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Olson, Greta and Franz Reimer, eds. Spec. issue of Law's Pluralities 18.2 (2017): 233-440. FULL PDF.
PDF contains entirety of the issue.
PDF contains entirety of the issue.
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Olson, Greta. “Figuring Human Rights and Troping Law and Literature: Li-Young Lee’s Poetic Investigations of Refugeeism and Migration.” Eds. Birte Christ and Stefanie Mueller. Spec. issue of Amerikastudien 62.2 (2017): 257-278.
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Olson, Greta. “Futures of Law and Literature: A Preliminary Overview from a Culturalist Perspective.” Law and Literature In-Between: Contemporary Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches. Eds. Christian Hiebaum, Susanne Knaller, Doris... more
Olson, Greta. “Futures of Law and Literature: A Preliminary Overview from a Culturalist Perspective.” Law and Literature In-Between: Contemporary Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches. Eds. Christian Hiebaum, Susanne Knaller, Doris Pichler. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015. 37-69.
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Olson, Greta. "Towards a Comparative and Localized Study of Brazilian Law and Literature." Direito e Literatura na Virada do Milênio: Law and Literature at the Turn of the Millenium. Org. Sonja Arnold and Michael Korfmann. Porto Alegre:... more
Olson, Greta. "Towards a Comparative and Localized Study of Brazilian Law and Literature." Direito e Literatura na Virada do Milênio: Law and Literature at the Turn of the Millenium. Org. Sonja Arnold and Michael Korfmann. Porto Alegre: Editora Dublinense, 2014. 15-38.
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Olson, Greta. "Narration and Narrative in Legal Discourse." Living Handbook of Narratology. Eds. Peter Hühn et al. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 2014.
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Olson, Greta. "Law is not Turgid and Literature not Soft and Fleshy: Gendering and Heteronormativity in Law and Literature Scholarship." Ed. Marett Leiboff. Spec. issue on “Law and Humanities Futures.” Australian Feminist Law Journal 36... more
Olson, Greta. "Law is not Turgid and Literature not Soft and Fleshy: Gendering and Heteronormativity in Law and Literature Scholarship." Ed. Marett Leiboff. Spec. issue on “Law and Humanities Futures.” Australian Feminist Law Journal 36 (2012): 65-86.
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Olson, Greta (2012). Reprint of "De-Americanizing Law and Literature Narratives: Opening up the Story". Dialogues on Justice: European Perspectives on Law and Humanities. Eds. Helle Porsdam and Thomas Elholm. Law and Literature Series.... more
Olson, Greta (2012). Reprint of "De-Americanizing Law and Literature Narratives: Opening up the Story". Dialogues on Justice: European Perspectives on Law and Humanities. Eds. Helle Porsdam and Thomas Elholm. Law and Literature Series. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012: 15-43.
Version with an expanded ending.
Please note that the page numbers of the document do NOT concur with the page numbers of the publication.
Version with an expanded ending.
Please note that the page numbers of the document do NOT concur with the page numbers of the publication.
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Olson, Greta. "De-Americanizing Law-and-Literature Narratives: Opening up the Story." Law & Literature 22 (2010): 338-364.
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Olson, Greta. "Prisons of Stone and Mind: Henry James's The Princess Casamassima and In the Cage." Stones of Law - Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age. Eds. Jan Alber und Frank Lauterbach. Toronto: U of Toronto P,... more
Olson, Greta. "Prisons of Stone and Mind: Henry James's The Princess Casamassima and In the Cage." Stones of Law - Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age. Eds. Jan Alber und Frank Lauterbach. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2009. 199-232.
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Krenberger, Verena and Greta Olson. “Durchsetzung und Schutz von Menschenrechten mit allen Mitteln? Zur Folterdebatte in Deutschland und in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Bausteine zu einer Ethik des Strafens. Philosophische, juristische und... more
Krenberger, Verena and Greta Olson. “Durchsetzung und Schutz von Menschenrechten mit allen Mitteln? Zur Folterdebatte in Deutschland und in den Vereinigten Staaten.” Bausteine zu einer Ethik des Strafens. Philosophische, juristische und literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Eds. Hans-Helmuth Gander, Monika Fludernik, Hans-Jörg Albrecht. Würzburg: Ergon, 2008. 177-210.
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Olson, Greta (2007). “Criminalized Bodies in Literature and Biocriminology.” In: The Body as Interface: Dialogues between the Disciplines. Ed. Sabine Sielke und Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2007.... more
Olson, Greta (2007). “Criminalized Bodies in Literature and Biocriminology.” In: The Body as Interface: Dialogues between the Disciplines. Ed. Sabine Sielke und Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2007. 257- 278.
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Olson, Greta and Martin Kayman. "From 'Law-and-Literature' to 'Law, Literature, and Language': A Comparative Approach." European Journal of English Studies 11:1 (2007): 1-15.
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Olson, Greta. "Richard III's Animalistic Criminal Body." Philological Quarterly 82.3 (2005): 301-324.
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Olson, Greta, and Monika Fludernik. "Introduction." In the Grip of Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between. Eds. Monika Fludernik und Greta Olson. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004. xiii-xiv.
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Olson, Greta: "Being in Uncertainty: Thinking the Coronavirus Pandemic" The Corona Crisis in Light of the Law-as-Culture Paradigm.The Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture," 2020.... more
Olson, Greta: "Being in Uncertainty: Thinking the Coronavirus Pandemic" The Corona Crisis in Light of the Law-as-Culture Paradigm.The Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture," 2020.
http://www.recht-als-kultur.de/de/download/66/364/2671/Greta Olson_Being in Uncertainty_Thinking the Coronavirus Pandemic.pdf
http://www.recht-als-kultur.de/de/download/66/364/2671/Greta Olson_Being in Uncertainty_Thinking the Coronavirus Pandemic.pdf
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Olson, Greta. "Questioning the Ideology of Reliability in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives. Eds. Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen,... more
Olson, Greta. "Questioning the Ideology of Reliability in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives. Eds. Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2018. 156-172.
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Alber, Jan and Greta Olson, eds. How to Do Things with Narrative: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2018.
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Olson, Greta and Sarah Copland. “The Politics of Form.” Spec. issue of The European Journal of the Study of English 20.3 (2016): 207-221.
Online access. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/gGChCZ6u6zMJrK6bZFEW/full
Online access. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/gGChCZ6u6zMJrK6bZFEW/full
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Olson, Greta. “‘Like a Dog’: Rituals of Animal Degradation in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Abu Ghraib Prison.” Journal of Narrative Theory 44.1 (2014): 116-156.
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Olson, Greta. “Dickens’s Animals through the Lenses of Poverty Studies and Posthumanism.” Dickens's Signs, Readers' Designs: New Bearings in Dickens Criticism. Eds. Norbert Lennartz and Francesca Orestano. Rome: Aracne, 2012. 281-303.
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Fludernik, Monika and Greta Olson. "Assessing Current Trends in Narratology." Current Trends in Narratology. Ed. Greta Olson. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2011. 1-33.
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Olson, Greta. "Metaphors and Cultural Transference: Mediating Cognitivist and Culturalist Approaches." Metaphors: Shaping Culture and Theory. / REAL - The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 25. Eds. Sibylle... more
Olson, Greta. "Metaphors and Cultural Transference: Mediating Cognitivist and Culturalist Approaches." Metaphors: Shaping Culture and Theory. / REAL - The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Vol. 25. Eds. Sibylle Baumbach, Herbert Grabes and Ansgar Nünning. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2009. 17-31.
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Olson, Greta. "Class and Race Bias in the Anti-Cruelty Discourse of the Early Eighteenth Century." Anglistentag 2007 Münster. Ed. Klaus Stierstorfer. Trier: WVT, 2008. 49-58.
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Olson, Greta. “Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators.” Narrative 11.1 (2003): 93-109.
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Olson, Greta. “Love and Hate Online – Affective Politics in the Era of Trump.” Violence and Trolling on Social Media: Online Vitriol. Eds. Sara Polak, Daniel Trottier, and Monica Williams. Amsterdam UP, 2020. 153-177. Author's... more
Olson, Greta. “Love and Hate Online – Affective Politics in the Era of Trump.” Violence and Trolling on Social Media: Online Vitriol. Eds. Sara Polak, Daniel Trottier, and Monica Williams. Amsterdam UP, 2020. 153-177.
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Olson, Greta. "Confessing Self, Confessing Nation: Life Narratives in the 2012 Presidential Election." Electoral Cultures: American Democracy and Choice. Eds. Georgiana Banita and Sascha Pöhlman. Publikationen der Bayerischen... more
Olson, Greta. "Confessing Self, Confessing Nation: Life Narratives in the 2012 Presidential Election." Electoral Cultures: American Democracy and Choice. Eds. Georgiana Banita and Sascha Pöhlman. Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian America Academy. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 341-366.
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Olson, Greta. “Recovering from the Men We Loved to Hate: Barack Obama as a Representative of Post-Post September 11 White House Masculinity.” Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture. Eds.... more
Olson, Greta. “Recovering from the Men We Loved to Hate: Barack Obama as a Representative of Post-Post September 11 White House Masculinity.” Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture. Eds. Christian Klöckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke. Transcription 6. Frankfurt: Lang, 2013. 93-119.
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Olson, Greta. "What has the Obama Presidency Changed?" Obama and the Paradigm Shift: Measuring Change. Eds. Birte Christ and Greta Olson. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 11-33.
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Olson, Greta. "Weighing in on Obama Connections between Embodiment, Class, and Masculinity in the United States and Germany." Obama and the Paradigm Shift: Measuring Change. Eds. Birte Christ and Greta Olson. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.... more
Olson, Greta. "Weighing in on Obama Connections between Embodiment, Class, and Masculinity in the United States and Germany." Obama and the Paradigm Shift: Measuring Change. Eds. Birte Christ and Greta Olson. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 105-39.
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Olson, Greta (2012). Entry on “Alice Sebold – Life and Works.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark, Janet Todd, and Cristina Sandru. 20 February 2012. Web. 16 May 2014.
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Olson, Greta. "Issues in American Punitivity." Pólemos 2 (2010). 45-66.
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Olson, Greta . Entry on “Susie Salmon from Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.” Student’s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters, Volume IV. Eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File / Manly, 2008.... more
Olson, Greta . Entry on “Susie Salmon from Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.” Student’s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters, Volume IV. Eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File / Manly, 2008. 1163-1164.
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Olson, Greta. "Fat and Class Prejudice: America's Two Bodies Society." US Icons and Iconicity. Ed. Walter Hölbling, Klaus and Susanne Rieser. Münster: LIT, 2006. 187-204.
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Olson, Greta. “Introducing Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones.” Twenty-First Century Fiction. Readings, Essays, Conversations. Ed. Christoph Ribbat. Anglistik & Englischunterricht 66. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2005. 137-147.
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Olson, Greta. Reading Eating Disorders: Writings on Bulimia and Anorexia as Confessions of American Culture. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003. 1-19 and 273 - 284.
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A discussion of feminist perspectives on crime and criminal justice in popular culture has to begin by pointing out that pop culture itself has traditionally been gendered as feminine. As epitomized by abstract visual art, nonnarrative... more
A discussion of feminist perspectives on crime and criminal justice in popular culture has to begin by pointing out that pop culture itself has traditionally been gendered as feminine. As epitomized by abstract visual art, nonnarrative poetry, and auteur cinema, high culture is still regarded in some critical circles as the opposite of popular culture, which is associated with the seductive and immersive qualities of mass media. Resulting from a masculinist aesthetic that privileged difficulty and abstraction as in Modernist poetics, so-called feminine forms have traditionally been considered to be less valuable than ones associated with masculinity. Media vehicles associated most readily and negatively with popular culture are those directed primarily at women audiences, such as daytime television, romance novels, and women’s magazines. Associated with the domestic space, leisure time, and unemployment, television itself was until recently viewed as a less-valuable, feminine medium.
For these reasons, and because of television’s preoccupation with crime, this article concentrates on television as a formally feminized medium that has for technological and social reasons now become more highly valued. Critiquing the conjoining of masculinity and cultural value is a feminist task. As viewers watch their favorite series in public spaces on handheld devices, and certain series are considered novelistic and complex enough to supersede other cultural forums, television has gained new cultural credence and is a premier space in which to relate popular images about women and criminal justice.
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feminist media studies, popular culture, women as victims, femmes fatale, monstrous women, justified criminals, women in law enforcement
For these reasons, and because of television’s preoccupation with crime, this article concentrates on television as a formally feminized medium that has for technological and social reasons now become more highly valued. Critiquing the conjoining of masculinity and cultural value is a feminist task. As viewers watch their favorite series in public spaces on handheld devices, and certain series are considered novelistic and complex enough to supersede other cultural forums, television has gained new cultural credence and is a premier space in which to relate popular images about women and criminal justice.
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feminist media studies, popular culture, women as victims, femmes fatale, monstrous women, justified criminals, women in law enforcement
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Wolters, Laura, and Stefan Mörchen. “‘Too White, too Straight, too Rich.’ Ein Gespräch mit Greta Olson über #MeToo.” Mittelweg 36 27.4 (2018): 54-67.
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Olson, Greta. “Loving Feminism." Beyond Gender: Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies – An Advanced Introduction. Eds. Greta Olson, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Daniel Hartley, Regina Leonie Schmidt. England: Routledge, 2018. This is the... more
Olson, Greta. “Loving Feminism." Beyond Gender: Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies – An Advanced Introduction. Eds. Greta Olson, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Daniel Hartley, Regina Leonie Schmidt. England: Routledge, 2018.
This is the author’s version of the text and represents a longer version of the one that has just been published by Routledge as https://www.crcpress.com/9781138665880
Important note: the page numbers in the document do NOT correspond with the page numbers in the book.
This is the author’s version of the text and represents a longer version of the one that has just been published by Routledge as https://www.crcpress.com/9781138665880
Important note: the page numbers in the document do NOT correspond with the page numbers in the book.
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Olson, Greta. “Beyond Gender: Towards a Decolonized Queer Feminist Future.” Beyond Gender: Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies – An Advanced Introduction. Eds. Greta Olson, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Daniel Hartley, Regina Leonie Schmidt.... more
Olson, Greta. “Beyond Gender: Towards a Decolonized Queer Feminist Future.” Beyond Gender: Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies – An Advanced Introduction. Eds. Greta Olson, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Daniel Hartley, Regina Leonie Schmidt. England: Routledge, 2018.
This is the author’s version of the text and represents a longer version of the one that has just been published by Routledge as https://www.crcpress.com/9781138665880
Important note: the page numbers in the document do NOT correspond with the page numbers in the book.
This is the author’s version of the text and represents a longer version of the one that has just been published by Routledge as https://www.crcpress.com/9781138665880
Important note: the page numbers in the document do NOT correspond with the page numbers in the book.
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Table of Contents from "Beyond Gender: Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies – An Advanced Introduction." Eds. Greta Olson, Daniel Hartley, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Regina Leonie Schmidt. England: Routledge, 2018 Available at... more
Table of Contents from "Beyond Gender: Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies – An Advanced Introduction." Eds. Greta Olson, Daniel Hartley, Mirjam Horn-Schott, Regina Leonie Schmidt. England: Routledge, 2018
Available at https://www.routledge.com/9781138665880
Available at https://www.routledge.com/9781138665880
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Olson, Greta. "Gender as a Travelling Concept: A Feminist Perspective." Travelling Concepts in the Humanities. Eds. Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nünning. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2012. 205-223.
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Olson, Greta. Sexual Selection, Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and T. C. Boyle's Drop City: Transfers Between Science and Contemporary Fiction and Culture." Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature's Refraction of Science. Eds.... more
Olson, Greta. Sexual Selection, Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and T. C. Boyle's Drop City: Transfers Between Science and Contemporary Fiction and Culture." Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature's Refraction of Science. Eds. Cedric Barfoot and Valeria Tinkler. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 507-527.
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Olson, Greta. "Reading and Writing Academically as a Mother." Freiburger Frauen-Studien. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung 18, Sonderausgabe zum Thema Elternschaft (2006): 231-249.
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Olson, Greta. “Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Justice in Popular Culture.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture. Ed. Michelle Brown. New York: Oxford UP, 2017.
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Olson, Greta. “Visual Unreliability and the Questioning of Security Measures in Homeland.” Spec. Issue on “Security and Visibility.” InVisible Culture 25 (2017): no pag.... more
Olson, Greta. “Visual Unreliability and the Questioning of Security Measures in Homeland.” Spec. Issue on “Security and Visibility.” InVisible Culture 25 (2017): no pag.
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/visual-unreliability-and-the-questioning-of-security-measures-in-homeland
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/visual-unreliability-and-the-questioning-of-security-measures-in-homeland
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Olson, Greta. "Recht und Moral in TV-Gerichtsshows mit vorsitzenden Richterinnen: Judge Judy und Richterin Barbara Salesch." Recht und Moral. Zur gesellschaftlichen Selbstverständigung über "Verbrechen" vom 17. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert.... more
Olson, Greta. "Recht und Moral in TV-Gerichtsshows mit vorsitzenden Richterinnen: Judge Judy und Richterin Barbara Salesch." Recht und Moral. Zur gesellschaftlichen Selbstverständigung über "Verbrechen" vom 17. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Eds. Hans-Erwin Friedrich and Claus-Michael Ort. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2015. 475-506.
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Olson, Greta. "Reading 9/11 Texts through the Lens of Critical Media Studies." New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies: Theory into Practice. Eds. Greta Olson and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2013. 161-185.
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Olson, Greta. "Intersections of Gender and Legal Culture in Two Women Judge Shows: Judge Judy and Richterin Barbara Salesch." Contemporary Gender Relations and Changes in Legal Culture. Eds. Hanne Petersen, Jose M. Vilaverde, and Ingrid... more
Olson, Greta. "Intersections of Gender and Legal Culture in Two Women Judge Shows: Judge Judy and Richterin Barbara Salesch." Contemporary Gender Relations and Changes in Legal Culture. Eds. Hanne Petersen, Jose M. Vilaverde, and Ingrid Lund Andersen. Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing, 2013. 29-58.
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Jung, Manuela. Interview with Greta Olson. “Es ist viel schlimmer geworden: Professorin und US-Amerikanerin Greta Olson über vier Jahre Trump, die Wahl und neue Hoffnung für die Staaten.” Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, 31 October 2020: 18. Print.
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Olson, Greta. "Coda Review: Historical Repercussions of the Criminal-Animal Trope." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 303-314.
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Olson, Greta. "Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 1-37. This PDF includes the Title... more
Olson, Greta. "Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 1-37.
This PDF includes the Title Page and List of Contents/Illustrations/Abbreviations as well as the first chapter.
This PDF includes the Title Page and List of Contents/Illustrations/Abbreviations as well as the first chapter.
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Olson, Greta. "Colonialism and the 'Criminal Beast' in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 167-188.
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Olson, Greta. "Jonson's Comedies of Gulling Rogues." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 131-153.
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Olson, Greta. "Of a Howling Murderer -The Duke of Malfi." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 109-129.
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Olson, Greta. "Richard III's Animalistic Criminal Body." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 85-107.
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Olson, Greta. "Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 41-83.
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Olson, Greta. "The Prisoner as Suffering Animal. Caleb Williams’s Revision of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 217-241.
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Olson, Greta. "The Criminal-Animal Metaphor and Lombrosian Criminology." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 275-301.
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Olson, Greta. "Charles Dickens's Contradictions." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 252-274.
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Olson, Greta. "William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty - Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts. Eighteenth-Century Anti-Cruelty Discourse and The Four Stages of Cruelty." Criminals as Animals from... more
Olson, Greta. "William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty - Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts. Eighteenth-Century Anti-Cruelty Discourse and The Four Stages of Cruelty." Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso. Law and Literature Series 8. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013. 139-217.
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Author's Extended Version of Olson, Greta. "Reading Jeanne, Reading Jeanne: A Review Essay of Jeanne Gaakeer’s Judging from Experience: Law, Praxis, Humanities.” Law & Literature, 32.2 (2020): 313-318.
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Olson, Greta. "Jan Alber & Monika Fludernik, eds. Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses." Review. Anglia 131.2-3 (2013): 395-401.
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Olson, Greta. "Jason Finch, et al, eds. Humane Readings: Essays on Literary Mediation and Communication in Honour of Roger D. Sell." Review. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14:1(2013): 156–159.
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Olson, Greta. "Isabelle Meuret, Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures." Review. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007, for the Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 246. 2. Halbjahresband 2009:... more
Olson, Greta. "Isabelle Meuret, Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures." Review. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007, for the Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 246. 2. Halbjahresband 2009: 439-440.
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Olson, Greta. "Das Honorieren der Lust, Mutter zu sein." Rev. of Die Lust, Mutter zu sein: Liebe, Kinder, Glück, by Daphne de Marneffe. Spec. Issue on Kindheit, Jugend und Sozialisation. Freiburger Geschlechterstudien 22. (2007 [2004]):... more
Olson, Greta. "Das Honorieren der Lust, Mutter zu sein." Rev. of Die Lust, Mutter zu sein: Liebe, Kinder, Glück, by Daphne de Marneffe. Spec. Issue on Kindheit, Jugend und Sozialisation. Freiburger Geschlechterstudien 22. (2007 [2004]): 414-417.
Research Interests: Motherhood and Parenthood
Olson, Greta. "'Cathedralesque' Courthouses and 'Forensic' Narratives: The Intermingling of Institutional Forms of Power with Narrative Paradigms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel." Rev. of The Art of Alibi. English Law Courts and the... more
Olson, Greta. "'Cathedralesque' Courthouses and 'Forensic' Narratives: The Intermingling of Institutional Forms of Power with Narrative Paradigms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Novel." Rev. of The Art of Alibi. English Law Courts and the Novel, by Jonathan H. Grossman. IASLonline. 2 November 2004. Web. 15 May 2014.
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Olson, Greta. "European Dialogues Concerning Law, Death, the Linguistic and the Literary." Rev. essay on Figures of Law: Studies in the Interference of Law and Literature. IASLonline. 3 August 2010. Web. 15 May 2014.
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Olson, Greta. "Visions and Revisions of Law and Literature." Rev. of Literature and Law, Ed. M. J. Meyer. and Law and Literature, Eds. P. Hanafin et al. IASLonline. 25 April 2007. Web. 15 May 2014.
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Olson, Greta. Reconsidering Unreliability: Fallible and Untrustworthy Narrators. Trans. ??? 《叙事》(Narrative) 11.1 (2003): 93-109. Ed. James Phelan.
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Furman, Kali. Rev. of Beyond Gender: An Advanced Introduction to Futures of
Feminist and Sexuality Studies, by Eds. Greta Olson et al. Feminist Formations 31.1 (2019): 168-170.
Feminist and Sexuality Studies, by Eds. Greta Olson et al. Feminist Formations 31.1 (2019): 168-170.
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Meyer, Jürgen. Rev. of New Theories, Models, and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies, by Eds. Greta Olson and Ansgar Nünning. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch Vol. 57 (2016): 269-273.
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Ribbat, Christoph. Rev. of Reading Eating Disorders: Writings on Bulimia and Anorexia as Confessions on American Culture, by Greta Olson. Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.4 (2005): 661-662.
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Eick, Stefan. Rev. of New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies, by Eds. Greta Olson and Ansgar Nünning. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 253.1 (2016): 208-211.
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Perlentaucher.de. Rev. of Reading Eating Disorders: Writings on Bulimia and Anorexia as Confessions on American Culture, by Greta Olson. Note on Review by Neue Zürcher Zeitung (21.06.2003). Perlentaucher.de - Das Kulturmagazin.
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WJC (sheenasplace.org). Rev. of Reading Eating Disorders: Writings on Bulimia and Anorexia as Confessions on American Culture, by Greta Olson. Flushed Issue 8 (2005).
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Klepper, Martin. Rev. of Current Trends in Narratology, by Greta Olson. Anglia 130.2 (2012): 313-316.
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Segal, Eyal. Rev. of Current Trends in Narratology, by Greta Olson. Poetics Today 34.3 (2013): 414-417.
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Ohme, Andreas. Rev. of Current Trends in Narratology, by Greta Olson. Fabula 53.1/2 (2012): 144-148.
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Kinzel, Till. Rev. of Current Trends in Narratology, by Greta Olson. Informationsmittel 19.3 (2011): n. pag.
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Heinen, Sandra. Rev. of Current Trends in Narratology, by Greta Olson. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 23.2 (2012): 201-202.
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Hartner, Marcus. Rev. of Current Trends in Narratology, by Greta Olson. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 1 (2013): 174-177.
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Tan, Kathy-Ann. Rev. of New Theories, Models and Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies, by Greta Olson. Anglia 133.2 (2015): 415 – 419.
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Böhm-Schmitke, Nadine. Rev. of Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso, by Greta Olson. Journal for the Study of British Culture Vol. 21.2/14: 232-235.
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Herbrechter, Stefan. "Animal Terror." Rev. of Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso, by Greta Olson. Cultural Machine Reviews (2015): 1-9.
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Bildbetrachtung: “Über das Sehen und das Sehen der Bilder von Susan Boal Thormann.” Buchmesse Bad Nauheim, April 13-14, 2019.
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Olson, Greta. “On Seeing the Colours of Law.” Some Colours of the Law: Images and Interpretations. Ed. Werner Gephart. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2017. 157-166.
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Olson, Greta. "Catherine Belsey." Obituary. European Journal of English Studies 25.1 (2021): iii-iii.
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Olson, Greta. “Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (mult.) Herbert Grabes (1936-2015) in Memoriam.” essenglish.org. The European Society for the Study of English. 5 July 2019.... more
Olson, Greta. “Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (mult.) Herbert Grabes (1936-2015) in Memoriam.”
essenglish.org. The European Society for the Study of English. 5 July 2019. https://essenglish.org/messenger/blog/in-memoriam-professor-herbert-grabes-1936-2015/
essenglish.org. The European Society for the Study of English. 5 July 2019. https://essenglish.org/messenger/blog/in-memoriam-professor-herbert-grabes-1936-2015/
Olson, Greta. “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse." Narrative and Metaphor in Law. Eds. Robert Weisberg and Michael Hanne. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 19-36. Print.... more
Olson, Greta. “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse." Narrative and Metaphor in Law. Eds. Robert Weisberg and Michael Hanne. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. 19-36. Print. This is the author's version of the published essay “On Narrating and Troping the Law: The Conjoined Use of Narrative and Metaphor in Legal Discourse,” with an added reference to Lynne Huffer’s title, which was missing in the published version.
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The first section contains a review of Greta Olson's From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect, and the second section is a question and answer exchange with the author.
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From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect represents a sustained argument for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. It argues that the traditional methods of Law and Literature can be combined with work in critical media... more
From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect represents a sustained argument for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. It argues that the traditional methods of Law and Literature can be combined with work in critical media studies, affect theory, and cultural narratology to address topics such as ethnonationalism, anti-immigration sentiments, and systemic racism in nations like Germany and the United States. Taking stock of the pluralization and diversification of the field at 50 years from a comparative standpoint, the book understands Law and Literature as a political project. This has a precedence in inaugural Law and Literature texts like Jacob Grimm’s Von der Poesie im Recht (On the Poetry in Law) from 1815/16, which imagines an alternative legal order grounded in the unity of law, poetic language, and feeling. The political thrust of Law and Literature continues up into the present with the arts of BlackLivesMatter documenting and resisting police violence against B...
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Olson, Greta. "Questioning the Ideology of Reliability in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives. Eds. Divya Dwivedi,... more
Olson, Greta. "Questioning the Ideology of Reliability in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist." Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives. Eds. Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen, and Richard Walsh. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2018. 156-172.
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Olson, Greta. "Narration and Narrative in Legal Discourse." Living Handbook of Narratology. Eds. Peter Hühn et al. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 2014.
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Abstract This essay uncovers a pattern of gendering in Law and Literature research that has contributed to limited understandings of the disciplines, taken singly, as well as to the projection of a heteronormative script on their... more
Abstract This essay uncovers a pattern of gendering in Law and Literature research that has contributed to limited understandings of the disciplines, taken singly, as well as to the projection of a heteronormative script on their relations to one another. This includes the troping of literature as feminine and that of law as masculine, and the emplotment of their relationship as that of an initially antagonistic yet ultimately satisfying heterosexual romance. Accordingly, actual forms of discrimination towards women are confused with contradictory images of a feminised literature as an empathetic, eloquent and morally superior woman. This idealised image of literature is figured as initially suffering under the regime of rationalistic, masculinised law but then reforming ‘him’ through the power of love. To posit law as a man and literature as a woman is to elide their similarities and reify their differences. After assembling evidence of gendering in US American Law and Literature work and to a lesser degree in British critical jurisprudence, the essay outlines historical reasons for why it is problematic to think of literature as morally uplifting and feminine and law as ‘brutish’ and masculine. Instances of ethical and contingent applications of law speak against any monolithic narrative that suggests that literature is inherently more morally conscious. Literature has proven to be a privileged forum for doing the police work of enforcing the gender binary as well as for maintaining other social divisions. In closing, the essay describes strategies to degender Law and Literature in an effort to move the conversation forward.
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I am grateful to the editors of this volume for allowing me to contribute in the atypical form of a comment on the subject of the volume rather than with a scholarly essay. Composing an essay that might have made manifest in print what... more
I am grateful to the editors of this volume for allowing me to contribute in the atypical form of a comment on the subject of the volume rather than with a scholarly essay. Composing an essay that might have made manifest in print what the title of my talk at the conference Literatura e Direito na virada do milenio/Law and Literature at the Turn of the Millennium had promised turned out to be an impossibility. In entitling my talk “Law and Literature in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany (and Brazil): Comparing Legal Systems, Literatures, and Cultural Preoccupations,” I discovered that I had promised too much. As an expatriate US American living in Germany and teaching British and American studies, I could not match the knowing I have of German, British, and American legal systems, literatures,and social issues with enough information about Brazil in a short time and without facility in Brazilian Portuguese. Thus the following has the character of a programmatic sketch rather than an analytic description.
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Please join us on Monday, 10 October, from 6 to 8pm/18:00 to 20:00 (UTC+02:00).
Join via the following link: https://uni-giessen.webex.com/uni-giessen-en/j.php?MTID=m20a89c33ef370abcbfae8e0e596e6bf7
or Webinar number 2734 594 3859 & Panelist password: ygNsY2uSP67
If you have any issues while logging in, please contact Melanie.Kreitler@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect argues for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. Traditional methods of Law and Literature are combined with work in critical media studies, affect, and cultural narratology to address topics such as ethnonationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, and systemic racism in Germany and the United States. Taking stock of the diversification of the field at fifty years, this book understands Law and Literature as a political project. It has a precedent in inaugural Law and Literature texts such as Jacob Grimm’s “Von der Poesie im Recht” (On the Poetry in Law) from 1815/16, which imagined an alternative legal order that was grounded in the unity of law, poetic language, and feeling. The political thrust of Law and Literature continues up into the present in the arts of BlackLivesMatter, which document and resist police violence. Law and Literature offers keys for understanding how legal texts and identities are constructed, and for comprehending how cultural-legal issues are mediated affectively. Using cultural, medial, affect theoretical, and narrative analyses of law, a revitalized Law and Literature offers a set of methods and theories with which to address the most pressing issues of the present.
The book launch will feature inputs by Jeanne Gaakeer, Professor of Jurisprudence at Erasmus School of Law (Rotterdam) and Senior Justice in the Court of Appeal, The Hague;
Simon Stern, Professor of Law and English, Chair in Innovation Law (Toronto) and Co-Editor of the Oxford University Press Law and Literature series;
Werner Gephart, Professor of Legal Sociology and Founding Director of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” (Bonn); and
Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardoza Law School (New York) and Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).
The launch will be moderated by Birte Christ, Substitute Professor for English and American Literature (Giessen) and author of a book on representations of the American death penalty in film and television, (under review) and co-editor, with Stefanie Mueller, of a special issue of Amerikatustudien on Poetry and Law.
Join via the following link: https://uni-giessen.webex.com/uni-giessen-en/j.php?MTID=m20a89c33ef370abcbfae8e0e596e6bf7
or Webinar number 2734 594 3859 & Panelist password: ygNsY2uSP67
If you have any issues while logging in, please contact Melanie.Kreitler@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect argues for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. Traditional methods of Law and Literature are combined with work in critical media studies, affect, and cultural narratology to address topics such as ethnonationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, and systemic racism in Germany and the United States. Taking stock of the diversification of the field at fifty years, this book understands Law and Literature as a political project. It has a precedent in inaugural Law and Literature texts such as Jacob Grimm’s “Von der Poesie im Recht” (On the Poetry in Law) from 1815/16, which imagined an alternative legal order that was grounded in the unity of law, poetic language, and feeling. The political thrust of Law and Literature continues up into the present in the arts of BlackLivesMatter, which document and resist police violence. Law and Literature offers keys for understanding how legal texts and identities are constructed, and for comprehending how cultural-legal issues are mediated affectively. Using cultural, medial, affect theoretical, and narrative analyses of law, a revitalized Law and Literature offers a set of methods and theories with which to address the most pressing issues of the present.
The book launch will feature inputs by Jeanne Gaakeer, Professor of Jurisprudence at Erasmus School of Law (Rotterdam) and Senior Justice in the Court of Appeal, The Hague;
Simon Stern, Professor of Law and English, Chair in Innovation Law (Toronto) and Co-Editor of the Oxford University Press Law and Literature series;
Werner Gephart, Professor of Legal Sociology and Founding Director of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture” (Bonn); and
Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardoza Law School (New York) and Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).
The launch will be moderated by Birte Christ, Substitute Professor for English and American Literature (Giessen) and author of a book on representations of the American death penalty in film and television, (under review) and co-editor, with Stefanie Mueller, of a special issue of Amerikatustudien on Poetry and Law.