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UNINA9910455015103321 |
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Titolo |
Law and literature reconsidered [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat |
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ISBN |
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1-280-77179-8 |
9786613682567 |
1-84950-561-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (183 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in law, politics and society, , 1059-4337 ; ; v. 43, special issue |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Law and literature |
Law in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front cover; Special Issue Law and Literature Reconsidered; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial board; Chapter 1. ''E proboscis unum: Law, literature, love, and the limits of sovereignty''; Notes; References; Chapter 2. What is it like to be like that? The progress of law and literature's ''other'' project; Introduction; 1. The taxonomic phase: Cataloging life's characters To help our clients; 2. The empathetic phase: experiencing others' lives, The better to help them; 3. The exemplary phase: Re-reading Plato's Republic |
Conclusion: The Republic constituting the RepublicNotes; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3. The law, the norm, and the novel; 1. The uses of the Victorians; 2. The norm, the law, and James Fitzjames Stephen; 3. ''Mad today and sane tomorrow'': Sensation fiction and the law; 4. A misunderstood relation; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Aesthetic judgment and legal justification; 1. Literary discourse and aesthetic judgment; 2. Legal institutions; 3. The rhetoric of legal justification; 4. Conclusion: the aesthetic predicament of legal criticism; References |
Chapter 5. Textual properties: The limit of law and literature - Towards |
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a Gothic jurisprudenceMimesis - The scene of a crime; Literature before the law; Spectres of law and literature - 'Gothic devilism'10; Monster/text/pharmakon - Mary Shelley's Frankestein; Conclusion: ''Take precisely this example''; Notes; References; Chapter 6. ''Reading as if for life'': Law and literature is more important than ever; Hermeneutics and the legal culture; Narrative and the law; Notes; References; Chapter 7. African American literature and the law; Notes; References |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Once hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question is whether the law and literature enterprise has lived up to its initial promise. This is a contemporary study of law and literature. I |
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