The Structures of Law and Literature : Duty, Justice, and Evil in the Cultural Imagination /
A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature
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Montréal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2013
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Table of 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