LEADER 04163nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910807329303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-43010-X 010 $a9786613430106 010 $a3-11-025377-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110253771 035 $a(CKB)3360000000338519 035 $a(EBL)799411 035 $a(OCoLC)769190341 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000560174 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11358933 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000560174 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568116 035 $a(PQKB)10994414 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC799411 035 $a(DE-B1597)123468 035 $a(OCoLC)840446667 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110253771 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL799411 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10515821 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL343010 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000338519 100 $a20110422d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRhetoric and evidence $elegal conflict and literary representation in U.S. American culture /$fPeter Schneck 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aBoston $cWalter de Gruyter$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 225 0 $aLaw & literature ;$v1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-025376-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgements --$tTable of Contents --$tChapter 1. Law, Literature, and the Predicament of Representation --$tChapter 2. Legitimate Fictions: Rhetoric and Evidence in the Law-and-Literature Movement --$tChapter 3 Wieland 's Testimony: Charles Brockden Brown and the Rhetoric of Evidence --$tChapter 4. The Judge and the Code: James Fenimore Cooper and the Common Law of Literature --$tChapter 5. Evidence and Identification: The Case(s) of To Kill a Mockingbird --$tChapter 6. Dissenting Opinions: William Gaddis, Alan Dershowitz, and the Spectacles of Media Justice --$tBibliography 330 $aThe book traces the changing relation and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, using examples from the 18th to the 20th century (including novels by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee, and William Gaddis). Since the early American republic, the critical representation of legal matters in literary fictions and cultural narratives about the law served an important function for the cultural imagination and legitimation of law and justice in the United States. One of the most essential questions that literary representations of the law are concerned with, the study argues, is the unstable relation between language and truth, or, more specifically, between rhetoric and evidence. In examining the truth claims of legal language and rhetoric and the evidentiary procedures and protocols which are meant to stabilize these claims, literary fictions about the law aim to provide an alternative public discourse that translates the law's abstractions into exemplary stories of individual experience. Yet while literature may thus strive to institute itself as an ethical counter narrative to the law, in order to become, in Shelley's famous phrase "the legislator of the world", it has to face the instability of its own relation to truth. The critical investigation of legal rhetoric in literary fiction thus also and inevitably entails a negotiation of the intrinsic value of literary evidence. 410 0$aLaw & Literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLaw in literature 606 $aLaw and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aLaw in mass media 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLaw in literature. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aLaw in mass media. 676 $a810.9/3554 686 $aHR 1520$2rvk 700 $aSchneck$b Peter$f1960-$01669037 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807329303321 996 $aRhetoric and evidence$94030057 997 $aUNINA