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Autore |
Miller Jeffrey |
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Titolo |
The structures of law and literature : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination / / Jeffrey Miller |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Law and literature |
Law in literature |
Legal literature - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1 First Principles and Controversies: Is Law and Literature More Than a Distraction for Bored Law Professors? -- 2 Towards a Typology, Iconography, and Symbology of Law and Literature -- 3 It's a Dutiful Day in the Neighbourhood: Duty as the Fulcrum on the Scales of Justice and the Centre of Community -- 4 The Evil That Persons Do: Unreasonableness and the Rejection or Abnegation of Duty -- 5 Humpty Dumpty in Wig and Gown: Legalese as Dialect, or, the Philology of Precedent -- 6 Putting It All Together: The Structures of Law and Literature - Law as Revolution, Justice as Nostalgia -- Glossary of Some Terms Used in This Book. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature. |
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