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Format: 1 online resource (592 p.)

ISBN: 9780674054417

Content: Law and Literature is the only book-length treatment of a widely popular subject that is drawing considerable academic attention. Leading legal scholar Richard Posner believes that courses and scholarship in law and literature provide an attractive alternative to courses and scholarship in jurisprudence (philosophy of law), especially since the study of literature can assist lawyers and judges by sharpening their rhetorical skills. The revised edition features considerable new material, including a consideration of plagiarism as well as discussions of novels that grapple with issues very pertinent today, such as illegal immigration, global warming, bioterrorism, surveillance, artificial reproduction, and virtual reality. Posner also discusses the role of the law in popular literature, movies, and television.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Critical Introduction -- , Part I. Literary Texts as Legal Texts -- , 1. Reflections of Law in Literature -- , 2. Law’s Beginnings: Revenge as Legal Prototype -- , 3. Antinomies of Legal Theory -- , 4. The Limits of Literary Jurisprudence -- , 5. Literary Indictments of Legal Injustice -- , 6. Two Legal Perspectives on Kafka -- , 7. Penal Theory in Paradise Lost -- , Part II. Legal Texts as Literary Texts -- , 8. Interpreting Contracts, Statutes, and Constitutions -- , 9. Judicial Opinions as Literature -- , Part III. How Else Might Literature Help Law? -- , 10. Literature as a Source of Background Knowledge for Law -- , 11. Improving Trial and Appellate Advocacy -- , 12. But Can Literature Humanize Law? -- , Part IV. The Regulation of Literature by Law -- , 13. Protecting Nonwriters -- , 14. Protecting (Other) Writers -- , Conclusion. Law and Literature: A Manifesto -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674054417

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674054417

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Format: 1 online resource (xvi, 570 p.)

Edition: 3rd ed.

ISBN: 0-674-26647-1 , 0-674-05441-5

Content: Among the new elements of this revision are literary plagiarism, the law as depicted in films, television, and popular fiction, and the 'edifying' school of law and literature, which argues that literature can sharpen the moral sense of lawyers and judges.

Note: Formerly CIP. , Contents Preface Critical Introduction Part I. Literary Texts as Legal Texts Reflections of Law in Literature Theoretical Considerations The American Legal Novel The Law in Popular Culture Camus and Stendhal Farcical Trials Law's Beginnings: Revenge as Legal Prototype and Literary Genre The Logic of Revenge Revenge Literature The Iliad and Hamlet Antinomies of Legal Theory Jurisprudential Drama from Sophocles to Shelley Has Law Gender? The Limits of Literary Jurisprudence Kafka Dickens Wallace Stevens Literary Indictments of Legal Injustice Law and Ressentiment Romantic Values in Literature and Law Billy Budd, The Brothers Karamazov, and Law's Limits Two Legal Perspectives on Kafka On Reading Kafka Politically In Defense of Classical Liberalism The Grand Inquisitor and Other Social Theorists Penal Theory in Paradise Lost The Punishment of Satan and His Followers The Punishment of Man The Punishment of the Animals Part II. Legal Texts as Literary Texts Interpreting Contracts, Statutes, and Constitutions Interpretation Theorized What Can Law Learn from Literary Criticism? Chain Novels and Black Ink Interpretation as Translation Judicial Opinions as Literature Meaning, Style, and Rhetoric Aesthetic Integrity and the "Pure" versus the "Impure" Style Two Cultures Part III. How Else Might Literature Help Law? Literature as a Source of Background Knowledge for Law Arch of Triumph From Huxley to The Matrix Improving Trial and Appellate Advocacy Sherlock Holmes to the Rescue? Legal Narratology Fictional Depictions of Lawyers The Funeral Orations in Julius Caesar But Can Literature Humanize Law? Aesthetic versus Moralistic Literary Criticism Then Why Read Literature? Part IV. The Regulation of Literature Protecting Nonwriters Pornographic Fiction Defamation by Fiction Protecting (Other) Writers What Is an "Author"? Copyright, Plagiarism, and Creativity Parody Conclusion. Law and Literature: A Manifesto Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-03246-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674054417