02687nam 2200637Ia 450 991080733740332120240416202909.00-7735-8898-110.1515/9780773588981(CKB)2670000000367942(EBL)3332596(SSID)ssj0001037432(PQKBManifestationID)12385459(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037432(PQKBWorkID)11043603(PQKB)10629246(MiAaPQ)EBC3332596(CEL)444769(OCoLC)1088264005(OCoLC)825161072(OCoLC)923238812(OCoLC)979231306(OCoLC)980294492(CaBNVSL)slc00232446(Au-PeEL)EBL3332596(CaPaEBR)ebr10694147(OCoLC)923238812(DE-B1597)656774(DE-B1597)9780773588981(EXLCZ)99267000000036794220111102d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe structures of law and literature duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination /Jeffrey Miller1st ed.Montreal McGill-Queen's University Pressc20131 online resource (255 p.)0-7735-4163-2 0-7735-4162-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature.Law and literatureLaw in literatureLegal literatureHistoryLaw and literature.Law in literature.Legal literatureHistory.809/.933554Miller Jeffrey67177MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807337403321The structures of law and literature3991645UNINA