Law and literature reconsidered [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat

• Pubblicazione: Bingley, : JAI, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (183 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.93; 809.933554
• Soggetto topico: Law and literature; Law in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SaratAustin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Republic ; Conclusion: 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 ; Chapter 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Once 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Law and literature reconsidered
• ISBN: 1-280-77179-8; 9786613682567; 1-84950-561-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455015103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in law, politics, and society ; ; v. 43.