Abstract

With its demonstration of human frailty and finitude, avant-garde literature offers a more rigorous jurisprudence of rights than juridical or legal discourse is capable of offering itself. The paper takes as example the lowering of fault requirements in Canadian criminal law, which weakens common-law protection of the fundamental right to liberty through a fault standard that is “not concerned with what was in the accused’s mind, but with what should have been there.” Avant-garde literature, in opposition, demonstrates—and cannot help but demonstrate, in a mode unique to its discourse—the real limits of seeing and knowing, as shown through a reading of Claude Ollier’s La Mise-en- Scéne.

摘要

先锋派文学通过展示人性的脆弱性和有限性，提供了比司法或法律话语本身所能提供的更为严格的权利法理学。本文以加拿大刑法中降低过错要求为例，通过“不关心被告人的想法，而是关心被告人本应想到的东西”的过错标准，削弱了普通法对基本自由权的保护。那里。” 相反，前卫文学以一种独特的话语方式展示了——并且情不自禁地展示了——观看和认知的真正局限性，正如通过阅读克洛德·奥利尔的《场景调度》所表明的那样。