Law and literature reconsidered

The purpose of this special issue of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society" is to examine the situation of law and literature. Once hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question today is whether the law and literature en...

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Other Authors Sarat, Austin
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, UK : JAI, 2008.
SeriesStudies in law, politics, and society ; v. 43.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849505611
1849505616
9780762314829
0762314826
ISSN1059-4337 ;
DOI10.1016/S1059-4337(2008)43
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 172 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • "E proboscis unum: law, literature, love, and the limits of sovereignty" / Harriet Murav
  • What is it like to be like that? : the progress of law and literature's "other" project / Rob Atkinson
  • The law, the norm, and the novel / Sara Murphy
  • Aesthetic judgment and legal justification / Guyora Binder
  • Textual properties: the limit of law and literature : towards a gothic jurisprudence / Susan Chaplin
  • "Reading as if for life" : law and literature is more important than ever / Teresa Godwin Phelps
  • African American literature and the law / Jon-Christian Suggs.