Law and Literature: Text and TheoryFirst published in 1996. The first anthology of its kind in this dynamic new field of study, this volume offers students the best of both worlds-theory and literature. Organized around specific themes to facilitate use of the text in a variety of courses, the material is highly accessible to undergraduates and is suitable as well for graduate students and law students. The anthology includes important articles by key figures in the law and literature debate, and presents seven thematically arranged sections that: |
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... once taught—and to some degree still are taught, though less comfortably so. I then suggest and elaborate some connections: between these two kinds of thought and expression; between the ways in which we are habituated to read texts of ...
... once in a while we would look at legislative history, social science studies, or lawyers' briefs, but almost always from the perspective of the judicial process. In law school, what we knew how to do, or thought we did, was to read ...
... a history of progress. Once again each item was seen to be intimately connected to the rest of the series: T.S. Eliot could say, for example, that the poet should feel "that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it.
... once thought to imply. In so doing the Court transforms a precedent—the muse is not a nightingale but a mockingbird —and gives new meaning to its key term: a search is an interference not with a possessory interest but with a reasonable ...
... once defined and contained; and the law, as we shall see below, is an institution that at its center works by the practice of the open hearing, in which two opposed parties tell their opposed stories, make their opposed claims, in a ...
Contents
Law Justice and Ethics | |
DRAMA | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Law and Worldview | |
Law and Punishment | |
DRAMA | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Race Class Gender and Sexuality | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Law Language and Narrative Structure | |