Andrew Benjamin Bricker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5664191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Benjamin Bricker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bricker |
| SIGNATURE | BRICKER A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4972-1282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
The law underwent significant changes in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial society. This volume reveals how legal developments of the period shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing. Reading canonical and lesserknown texts from the Restoration to the Romantic era, the chapters explore literary engagements with libel law, plague law,…
The many paths ahead
This essay outlines our vision for Critical Cycling Studies (CCS), a framework for cycling-related research. At the core of CCS is a focus on interdisciplinarity and the reconceptualisation of cycles as “interfaces” that mediate the experiences of cycle users. CCS focuses not only on the object of the cycle as a physical interface, but also on the experience of cycling as a figurative “interface technology”: that is, cycling as a form of situated…
Humour and conflict in the digital age
This special issue examines how humour and conflict intersect in the digitally networked public sphere. Building on work that has grown out of various research projects, a 2023 conference, and recent trends in humour studies, the contributions to this special issue explore how a variety of humorous objects and practices—from memes and stand-up comedy to cartoons and other forms—shape and are shaped by the communicative logics of the internet. The…
The degenerative aesthetics of the dankest meme lords
Drawing on historical and theoretical accounts that treat satire as a mobile mode rather than a fixed genre, I argue that satire’s political orientation cannot be predetermined: satire habitually oscillates between restraint and license, enforcing norms and violating them—often at once. Reframing satire in modal terms makes visible a neglected but consequential body of visual-verbal texts: far-right memes. The analysis proceeds in four moves. Fir…
The Cambridge History of the British Essay
From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the British Essay offers the first authoritative single-volume history of the form's development within the British literary tradition. It restores to the contempo…
Humor and the Law
In this introduction, we outline several approaches to the role humor might play in relation to the law through the six articles contributed to this special issue and through important and more recent theories that have guided discussions of humor. We take up two aspects in particular when addressing the efficacy of humor: its ability to serve as a diagnostic tool and even cure; and its weaknesses, limitations, and shortcomings. Finally, we outli…
The difficulty of judging jests
in Sorgues, in Southeastern France, a three-year old child was sent to preschool with a T-shirt reading "je suis une bombe!" [I am a bomb!] on one side, and "Jihad, n le 11 septembre" [Jihad, born on September 11th] on the other. The T-shirt played on the child's actual name (Jihad, which is common in the Arab world) and date of birth (which was actually September 11th). Jihad's uncle had given him the T-shirt as a birthday present, and asked his…
Satire and the law
n Contains fulltext :\n 288735.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Is Narrative Essential to the Law
Storytelling pervades almost every aspect of the law. Many narrativistic legal elements, however, have in fact been little more than historically transitory. Given the precarious status of narrative at law, I argue we should focus instead on one of the most historically consistent acts of legal storytelling: the judicial opinion. Here I examine in particular the invocation of precedent in legal opinions, what I call “judicial emplotment,” as an a…
Restoration Plays and Players
Roberts, David. Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Les passions et leurs enjeux au seizième siècle), on Érudit
Humor and the Law
In this introduction, we outline several approaches to the role humor might play in relation to the law through the six articles contributed to this special issue and through important and more recent theories that have guided discussions of humor. We take up two aspects in particular when addressing the efficacy of humor: its ability to serve as a diagnostic tool and even cure; and its weaknesses, limitations, and shortcomings. Finally, we outli…
The difficulty of judging jests
in Sorgues, in Southeastern France, a three-year old child was sent to preschool with a T-shirt reading "je suis une bombe!" [I am a bomb!] on one side, and "Jihad, n le 11 septembre" [Jihad, born on September 11th] on the other. The T-shirt played on the child's actual name (Jihad, which is common in the Arab world) and date of birth (which was actually September 11th). Jihad's uncle had given him the T-shirt as a birthday present, and asked his…
Restoration Plays and Players
Roberts, David. Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Les passions et leurs enjeux au seizième siècle), on Érudit
Is Narrative Essential to the Law
Storytelling pervades almost every aspect of the law. Many narrativistic legal elements, however, have in fact been little more than historically transitory. Given the precarious status of narrative at law, I argue we should focus instead on one of the most historically consistent acts of legal storytelling: the judicial opinion. Here I examine in particular the invocation of precedent in legal opinions, what I call “judicial emplotment,” as an a…
The difficulty of judging jests
in Sorgues, in Southeastern France, a three-year old child was sent to preschool with a T-shirt reading "je suis une bombe!" [I am a bomb!] on one side, and "Jihad, n le 11 septembre" [Jihad, born on September 11th] on the other. The T-shirt played on the child's actual name (Jihad, which is common in the Arab world) and date of birth (which was actually September 11th). Jihad's uncle had given him the T-shirt as a birthday present, and asked his…
Satire and the law
n Contains fulltext :\n 288735.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Humor and the Law
In this introduction, we outline several approaches to the role humor might play in relation to the law through the six articles contributed to this special issue and through important and more recent theories that have guided discussions of humor. We take up two aspects in particular when addressing the efficacy of humor: its ability to serve as a diagnostic tool and even cure; and its weaknesses, limitations, and shortcomings. Finally, we outli…
The Cambridge History of the British Essay
From ancient influences on the essay as a form of rhetoric to the Irish essay as performance, from British imperial propaganda to African postcolonial resistance, from political pamphlets to the rise of literary professionalism, from gastronomy to ecocriticism, The Cambridge History of the British Essay offers the first authoritative single-volume history of the form's development within the British literary tradition. It restores to the contempo…
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
The law underwent significant changes in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial society. This volume reveals how legal developments of the period shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing. Reading canonical and lesserknown texts from the Restoration to the Romantic era, the chapters explore literary engagements with libel law, plague law,…
The many paths ahead
This essay outlines our vision for Critical Cycling Studies (CCS), a framework for cycling-related research. At the core of CCS is a focus on interdisciplinarity and the reconceptualisation of cycles as “interfaces” that mediate the experiences of cycle users. CCS focuses not only on the object of the cycle as a physical interface, but also on the experience of cycling as a figurative “interface technology”: that is, cycling as a form of situated…
Humour and conflict in the digital age
This special issue examines how humour and conflict intersect in the digitally networked public sphere. Building on work that has grown out of various research projects, a 2023 conference, and recent trends in humour studies, the contributions to this special issue explore how a variety of humorous objects and practices—from memes and stand-up comedy to cartoons and other forms—shape and are shaped by the communicative logics of the internet. The…
The degenerative aesthetics of the dankest meme lords
Drawing on historical and theoretical accounts that treat satire as a mobile mode rather than a fixed genre, I argue that satire’s political orientation cannot be predetermined: satire habitually oscillates between restraint and license, enforcing norms and violating them—often at once. Reframing satire in modal terms makes visible a neglected but consequential body of visual-verbal texts: far-right memes. The analysis proceeds in four moves. Fir…
Humor Studies and Applications (4 works) · Law in Society and Culture (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)