LEADER 03740nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910455015103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-77179-8 010 $a9786613682567 010 $a1-84950-561-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000767162 035 $a(EBL)453309 035 $a(OCoLC)609843608 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000432253 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11316007 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432253 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10477488 035 $a(PQKB)11387283 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC453309 035 $a(PPN)187304122 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL453309 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310645 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000767162 100 $a20080118d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLaw and literature reconsidered$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Austin Sarat 210 $aBingley $cJAI$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in law, politics and society,$x1059-4337 ;$vv. 43, special issue 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7623-1482-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aFront 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 327 $aConclusion: 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 327 $aChapter 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; References 330 $aOnce hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question is whether the law and literature enterprise has lived up to its initial promise. This is a contemporary study of law and literature. I 410 0$aStudies in law, politics, and society ;$vv. 43. 606 $aLaw and literature 606 $aLaw in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLaw and literature. 615 0$aLaw in literature. 676 $a809.93 676 $a809.933554 701 $aSarat$b Austin$0254475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455015103321 996 $aLaw and literature reconsidered$92270372 997 $aUNINA