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HUMANITARIAN LAW AND LITERATURE: FROM UTOPIA TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2009

Ove Bring
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Abstract

The article identifies humanitarian law related thought in some works of world literature. A starting point is Thomas More's Utopia (1516). Since Judge T. Meron has dealt extensively with Shakespeare from a similar perspective, the works referred to in the article (except Utopia) are all post-Shakespearean. The exposé ends with Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five (1969) and some dry comments on the bombing of Dresden in that book.

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LawLiteraturehumanitarian lawworld literature
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Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law , Volume 10 , December 2007 , pp. 3 - 44
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Authors 2007

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