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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 August 1999
- ISBN 9780198298137
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages796 pages
- Size 224x144x47 mm
- Weight 1020 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the second volume of a new series entitled `Current Legal Issues' that are to be published each Spring as a sister volume to `Current Legal Problems'. The second volume shows that although law is literature, it also features in literature such as Shakespeare, Dickens, and Hardy. It is a particular form of literature and is not always recognized as such. The law is also used to control literature through defamation, blasphemy, obscenity, etc. These are just some of the many themes that are covered in this stimulating collection by leading writers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Law and Literature, the second volume in the Current Legal Issues series, is a comprehensive and provocative treatment of an exciting new area that will stimulate and enlighten anyone interested in law as it appears in literature. Future volumes will include such subjects such as law and medicine and law and religion.
Law is literature but it also appears frequently in literature. The trial itself has features in common with literature, and law and literature both require interpretation. Literature may be constrained by the law and the law of defamation or blasphemy as, for example, the Salman Rushdie affair so vividly illustrates. All of these wide-ranging topics of relating law to literature are explored in this state of the art volume written by leading thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic.
Texts analysed range from drama to novels to film and musical performance and interpretation to the Bible. Trials dissected include the Eichmann and M'Naughten cases and treason and witchcraft trials.
The range of subjects includes legal ethics, punishment, responsibility, colonialism, violence, and feminism.
the contributors have staked out their own distinctive approaches.
Table of Contents:
Editor's Preface
Introduction
Writing and Reading in Philosophy, Law, and Poetry
Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship as Guilty Pleasure: The Case of Law and Literature
Literature's Twenty-Year Crossing into the Domain of Law: Continuing Trespass or Right of Adverse Possession
The Law-as-Literature Trope
Per(versions) of Law in Literature
Shakespeare, the Native Community, and the Legal Imagination
Ibsen and the Inscription of Blame in Law
Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the Law of Provocation
Fantasies of Women as Lawmakers: Empowerment or Entrapment in Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers
From Bette Davis to Mrs Whitehouse: Law and Literature - Theory and Practice
`How can ye criticise what's plain law, man?: The Lawyer, the Novelist, and the Discourse of Authority
The Bible, Law, and Liberation: Towards a Politico-Legal Hermeneutics of the Sermon on the Mount
Rivka Yoselewska on the Stand: The Structure of Legality and the Construction of Heroic memory at the Eichmann Trial
The `Final Struggle': A Discoursal, Rhetorical, and Social Analysis of Two Closing Arguments
Crossing the Literary Modernist Divide at Century's End: The Turn to Translation and the Invention of Identity in America's Story of Origins
Lawyers and Introspection
Translation and Judicial Ethos: Some Remarks on James Boyd White's Proposal for the Harmony of the Spheres
The Sovereign Self: Identity and Responsibility in Victorian England
Is Literature More Ethical than Law? Fitzjames Stephen and Literary Responses to the Advent of Full Legal Representation for Felons
Victorian Narrative Jurisprudence
`Born Pious, Literary, and Legal': Lord Coleridge's Criticisms in Law and Literature
Defamation and Fiction
Art Crimes
Reading Blasphemy: The Necessity for Literary Analysis in Legal Scholarship
Capturing Childhood: The Indian Child in the European Imagination
Legalizing Violence: Fanon, Romance, Colonial Law
Governing Bodies Tempering Tongues: Elizabeth Barton and the Politics of the Performative in Early Tudor England
The Guernsey Witchcraft Trials of 1617: The Case of Collette Becquet
The Hidden Truth of Autopoiesis
What Frederick Douglass Says to Kanto, with Help from Einstein
Singular and Aggregate Voices: Audiences and Authority in Law & Literature and in Law & Feminism
Law as Performance
