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: |
From inside the book
... Justice, and Ethics Introductory Notes POETRY "To Edwin V. McKenzie: On His Defense of David Lamson"; "To a Woman on Her Defense of Her Brother Unjustly Convicted of Murder: Written after an Initial Study of the Evidence"; "To David ...
... Justice as Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990); Richard H. Weisberg, The Failure of the Word: The Lawyer as Protagonist in Modern Fiction (New Haven: Yale University Press ...
... justice. Ronald Dworkin, in the first of what would come to be a series of lively exchanges with Stanley Fish, suggests a "chain novel" as a paradigm for interpretation. Stanley Fish (well-known for his own postulation of "interpretive ...
... justice. If we address these questions well, good answers will emerge to the secondary questions too, for implicit in any tolerable response to them are standards of justice—attitudes towards ourselves and others—that will inform what ...
... Justice Marshall said in a famous phrase, emphasizing the key terms, "we must never forget, that it is a constitution we are expounding." This kind of teaching says: "we must never forget, that it is a composition we are reading.") When ...
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 | |