Socrate : la sua opera e il suo posto nella storia / di Heinrich Maier ; traduzione di Giovanni Sanna

• Record Nr.: UNINA990006587330403321
• Autore: Maier, Heinrich
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Firenze : La Nuova Italia, c1978
• Descrizione fisica: 2 v. ; 20 cm
• Collana: Strumenti. Ristampe anastatiche ; 45
• Locazione: FSPBC
• Collocazione: COLLEZ. 63 (45,I); COLLEZ. 63 (45,II)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

A theory of the trial [[electronic resource] /] / Robert P. Burns

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780064203321
• Autore: Burns Robert P. <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1999
• ISBN: 1-282-75393-2; 9786612753930; 1-4008-2337-4; 1-4008-1115-5
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 347.73/7
• Soggetti: Trials - United States; Judicial process - United States; Justice, Administration of - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. The Received View of the Trial -- II. The Trial's Linguistic Practices -- III. The Trial's Constitutive Rules -- IV. An Interpretation from One Trial -- V. The Trial's Most Basic Features and Some Observed Consequences -- VI. Thinking What We Do -- VII. The Two Sides of the Trial Event -- VIII. The Truth of Verdicts -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Anyone who has sat on a jury or followed a high-profile trial on television usually comes to the realization that a trial, particularly a criminal trial, is really a performance. Verdicts seem determined as much by which lawyer can best connect with the hearts and minds of the jurors as by what the evidence might suggest. In this celebration of the American trial as a great cultural achievement, Robert Burns, a trial lawyer and a trained philosopher, explores how these legal proceedings bring about justice. The trial, he reminds us, is not confined to the impartial application of legal rules to factual findings. Burns depicts the trial as an institution employing its own language and styles of performance that elevate the understanding of decision-makers, bringing them in contact with moral sources beyond the limits of law. Burns explores the rich narrative structure of the trial, beginning with the lawyers' opening statements, which establish opposing moral frameworks in which to interpret the evidence. In the succession of witnesses, stories compete and are held in tension. At some point during the performance, a sense of the right thing to do arises among the jurors. How this happens is at the core of Burns's investigation, which draws on careful descriptions of what trial lawyers do, the rules governing their actions, interpretations of actual trial material, social science findings, and a broad philosophical and political appreciation of the trial as a unique vehicle of American self-government.

Is he dead? : a comedy in three acts / / Mark Twain ; edited with foreword, afterword, and notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; text established by the Mark Twain Project, the Bancroft Library ; illustrations by Barry Moser

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959827203321
• Autore: Twain Mark <1835-1910.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• ISBN: 9786612772092; 9781282772090; 1282772090; 9780520939899; 0520939891
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Collana: Jumping frogs
• Altri autori (Persone): FishkinShelley Fisher
• Disciplina: 812/.4
• Soggetti: Artists; Death; Barbizon (France) Drama
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Is He Dead? by Mark Twain -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America's most important and well-loved writers. A highly entertaining comedy that has never appeared in print or on stage, Is He Dead? is finally available to the wide audience Mark Twain wished it to reach. Written in 1898 in Vienna as Twain emerged from one of the deepest depressions of his life, the play shows its author's superb gift for humor operating at its most energetic. The text of Is He Dead?, based on the manuscript in the Mark Twain Papers, appears here together with an illuminating essay by renowned Mark Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin and with Barry Moser's original woodcut illustrations in a volume that will surely become a treasured addition to the Mark Twain legacy. Richly intermingling elements of burlesque, farce, and social satire with a wry ; look at the world market in art, Is He Dead? centers on a group of poor artists in Barbizon, France, who stage the death of a friend to drive up the price of his paintings. In order to make this scheme succeed, the artists hatch some hilarious plots involving cross-dressing, a full-scale fake funeral, lovers' deceptions, and much more. Mark Twain was fascinated by the theater and made many attempts at playwriting, but this play is certainly his best. Is He Dead? may have been too "out there" for the Victorian 1890's, but today's readers will thoroughly enjoy Mark Twain's well-crafted dialogue, intriguing cast of characters, and above all, his characteristic ebullience and humor. In Shelley Fisher Fishkin's estimation, it is "a champagne cocktail of a play--not too dry, not too sweet, with just the right amount of bubbles and buzz."