Law and Literature: Text and TheoryRoutledge, 2015. jún. 3. - 518 oldal First published in 1996. The first anthology of its kind in this dynamic new field of study, this volume offers students the best of both worlds-theory and literature. Organized around specific themes to facilitate use of the text in a variety of courses, the material is highly accessible to undergraduates and is suitable as well for graduate students and law students. The anthology includes important articles by key figures in the law and literature debate, and presents seven thematically arranged sections that: |
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... answer. Learning to live with indeterminacy is at the heart of practicing law, but this is hardly ever explicitly said to students. Some reading in literary theory can, frankly, make the law easier to live with as a profession. Finally ...
... answers will emerge to the secondary questions too, for implicit in any tolerable response to them are standards of justice—attitudes towards ourselves and others—that will inform what we say and do far better than any a priori theory ...
... answer to these questions, but implicit in what I have said are certain things that bear upon it, and it may be worthwhile to bring them to the surface. In the first place, it would be inconsistent with everything I have said to expect ...
... should we aspire? The answer implicit in what I have said is that we conceive of the law less as a bureaucratic system than as a language and a set of relations. What we should demand in each case is that the judge give to.
... answer could you—or Dear Abby or anyone else—possibly give them? Obviously there is no one set of correct or just or wise rules. Many fine parents have resolved these matters with their children very differently; many bad parents have ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Law Justice and Ethics | |
DRAMA | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Law and Worldview | |
Law and Punishment | |
DRAMA | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Race Class Gender and Sexuality | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Law Language and Narrative Structure | |