The structures of law and literature [[electronic resource] ] : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination / / Jeffrey Miller
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Miller Jeffrey
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The structures of law and literature [[electronic resource] ] : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination / / Jeffrey Miller
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.933554 |
| Soggetto topico: | Law and literature |
| Law in literature | |
| Legal literature - History | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The structures of law and literature |
| ISBN: | 0-7735-8898-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786964603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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