| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 242) pages |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Law and literature.
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Law in literature.
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Legal literature -- History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Law and literature
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Law in literature
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Legal literature
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Sociological jurisprudence
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0773588981 |
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9780773588981 |
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0773541624 |
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9780773541627 |
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0773541632 |
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9780773541634 |
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