03740nam 2200637Ia 450 991045501510332120200520144314.01-280-77179-897866136825671-84950-561-6(CKB)1000000000767162(EBL)453309(OCoLC)609843608(SSID)ssj0000432253(PQKBManifestationID)11316007(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432253(PQKBWorkID)10477488(PQKB)11387283(MiAaPQ)EBC453309(PPN)187304122(Au-PeEL)EBL453309(CaPaEBR)ebr10310645(EXLCZ)99100000000076716220080118d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLaw and literature reconsidered[electronic resource] /edited by Austin SaratBingley JAI20081 online resource (183 p.)Studies in law, politics and society,1059-4337 ;v. 43, special issueDescription based upon print version of record.0-7623-1482-6 Includes bibliographical references.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 RepublicConclusion: 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; ReferencesChapter 5. Textual properties: The limit of law and literature - Towards 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; ReferencesOnce 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. IStudies in law, politics, and society ;v. 43.Law and literatureLaw in literatureElectronic books.Law and literature.Law in literature.809.93809.933554Sarat Austin254475MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455015103321Law and literature reconsidered2270372UNINA