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Literature and Law

Author : Mark Fortier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351203819
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Law written by Mark Fortier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction to the area, covering the history, key thinkers and ideas as well as detailed and fascinating studies into areas such as evidence and truth, inheritance, sex, vigilantism and justice. Each chapter examines a number of familiar authors and texts including Shakespeare, Brecht, Austen, Dickens, Ishiguro, Beecher-Stowe, Atwood, Miller. The book also opens up the broader study of law as it relates to culture in such areas as film, television, and digital media and how they affect such issues as a right to privacy, copyright and creative reworking, and censorship. Mark Fortier offers a concise, systemic introduction to the law and legal system for the lay person, covering basic notions of justice and law (fundamental justice, natural law, positive law) and the legal system (common law vs civil law, case law, statute, constitutional law, private law [tort, contract, property], criminal law, equity, basic rules of evidence, stare decisis, the adversarial system) as well as a very handy glossary of legal terms. This is a fascinating guide to a very topical and increasingly relevant area of literary studies.

A Theory of Law and Literature

Author : Angela Condello
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004448152
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Law and Literature written by Angela Condello and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors work on an innovative comparison between law and literature, starting from the modes in which law and literature function: they read law and literature as arts of compromising.

Law and Literature

Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521474744
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Law and Literature written by Ian Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of an interdisciplinary study of law and literature is one of the most exciting theoretical developments taking place in North America and Britain. In Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives Ian Ward explores the educative ambitions of the law and literature movement, and its already established critical, ethical and political potential. He reveals the law in literature, and the literature of law, in key areas of literature, from Shakespeare to Beatrix Potter to Umberto Eco, and from feminist literature to children's literature to the modern novel, drawing out the interaction between rape law and The Handmaid's Tale, and the psychology of English property law and The Tale of Peter Rabbit. This original book defines the developing state of law and literature studies, and demonstrates how the theory of law and literature can illuminate the literary text.

Law and Imagination in Troubled Times

Author : Richard Mullender
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000066835
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Imagination in Troubled Times written by Richard Mullender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them. It centres on how they engage in a dialogue with the imagination and literature, thus triggering an emergent (but thus far underdeveloped) field concerning the ‘legal imagination.’ Legal change necessitates a close examination of the historical, cultural, social, and economic variables that promote and affect such change. This requires us to attend to the variety of non-legal variables that percolate throughout the legal system. The collection probes ‘the transatlantic constitution’ and focuses attention on imagination in a common law context that seems to foster imagination as a cultural capability. The book is divided into four parts. The first part begins with a set of insights into the historical development of legal education in England and concludes with a reflection on the historical transition of England from an absolute monarchy to a republic. The second part of the volume examines the role that imagination plays in the functioning of the courts. The third part focuses on patterns of thought in legal scholarship and detects how legal imagination contributes to the process of producing new legal categories and terminology. The fourth part focuses on patterns of thought in legal scholarship, and looks to the impact of the imagination on legal thinking in the future. The work provides stimulating reading for those working in the areas of legal philosophy, legal history and law and humanities and law and language.

Literary Criticisms of Law

Author : Guyora Binder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823633
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Literary Criticisms of Law written by Guyora Binder and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-22 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as literary innovators, who creatively interpret legal authority, narrate disputed facts and hypothetical fictions, represent persons before the law, move audiences with artful rhetoric, and invent new legal forms and concepts. Binder and Weisberg explain the literary theories and methods increasingly applied to law, and they introduce and synthesize the work of over a hundred authors in the fields of law, literature, philosophy, and cultural studies. Drawing on these disparate bodies of scholarship, Binder and Weisberg analyze law as interpretation, narration, rhetoric, language, and culture, placing each of these approaches within the history of literary and legal thought. They sort the styles of analysis most likely to sharpen critical understanding from those that risk self-indulgent sentimentalism or sterile skepticism, and they endorse a broadly synthetic cultural criticism that views law as an arena for composing and contesting identity, status, and character. Such a cultural criticism would evaluate law not simply as a device for realizing rights and interests but also as the framework for a vibrant cultural life.

Law and Literature

Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Law and Literature written by Richard A. Posner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed in its first edition as an "outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished" (New York Times), Richard A. Posner's Law and Literature has handily lived up to the Washington Post's prediction that the book would "remain essential reading for many years to come." This new edition, extensively revised and enlarged, continues to emphasize the essential differences between law and literature, which are rooted in the different social functions of legal and literary texts. But it also explores areas of mutual illumination and expands its range to include new topics such as popular fiction about law, literary education for lawyers, the legal narrative movement, and judicial biography. Literary works from classics by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Melville, Kafka, and Camus to contemporary fiction by William Gaddis, Tom Wolfe, and John Grisham come under Posner's scrutiny, as do recent attempts to apply the techniques of literary analysis to statutes, judicial opinions, and the Constitution. In a section entirely new in this edition, Posner discusses the increasing efforts of legal scholars to enrich their scholarship by borrowing the methods and insights of literature--even by insisting that legal education is incomplete without the ethical insights afforded by an immersion in literature. Thoroughly rewritten and updated, free of legal and literary jargon, and informed by Posner's extensive erudition and legal experience, this book remains the most clear, acute, and comprehensive account of the intersection of law and literature--"a wonderfully original and instructive study of what literature has to teach us about the law, the methods of legal argument, and the interpretation of statutes and the Constitution" (Wall Street Journal).

A Power to Do Justice

Author : Bradin Cormack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226116255
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book A Power to Do Justice written by Bradin Cormack and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdiction came under particular strain. When the common law engaged with other court systems in England, when it encountered territories like Ireland and France, or when it confronted the ocean as a juridical space, the law revealed its qualities of ingenuity and improvisation. In other words, as Bradin Cormack argues, jurisdictional crisis made visible the law’s resemblance to the literary arts. A Power to Do Justice shows how Renaissance writers engaged the practical and conceptual dynamics of jurisdiction, both as a subject for critical investigation and as a frame for articulating literature’s sense of itself. Reassessing the relation between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare, Cormack argues that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law’s power, even as they clarify the forms of intensification that make literary space a reality. Tracking cultural responses to Renaissance jurisdictional thinking and legal centralization, A Power to Do Justice makes theoretical, literary-historical, and methodological contributions that set a new standard for law and the humanities and for the cultural history of early modern law and literature.

The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700

Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199660883
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 written by Lorna Hutson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that an understanding of how people in the past thought about and used the law is key to understanding early modern familial and social relations as well as important aspects of the political revolution and the emergence of capitalism. Judicial or forensic rhetoric has been shown to foster new habits of literary composition (poetry and drama) and new processes of fact-finding and evidence evaluation. In addition, the post-Reformation jurisdictional dominance of the common law produced new ways of drawing the boundaries between private conscience and public accountability. Accordingly, historians, critics and legal historians come together in this Handbook to develop accounts of the past that are attentive to the legally purposeful or fictional shaping of events in the historical archive.They also contribute to a transformation of our understanding of the place of forensic modes of inquiry in the creation of imaginative fiction and drama. Chapters in the Handbook approach, from a diversity of perspectives, topics including forensic rhetoric, humanist and legal education, Inns of Court revels, drama, poetry, emblem books, marriage and divorce, witchcraft, contract, property, imagination, oaths, evidence, community, local government, legal reform, libel, censorship, authorship, torture, slavery, liberty, due process, the nation state, colonialism, and empire"--Book jacket.

Citizenship, Law and Literature

Author : Caroline Koegler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110749831
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship, Law and Literature written by Caroline Koegler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is the first to focus on how concepts of citizenship diversify and stimulate the long-standing field of law and literature, and vice versa. Building on existing research in law and literature as well as literature and citizenship studies, the collection approaches the triangular relationship between citizenship, law and literature from a variety of disciplinary, conceptual and political perspectives, with particular emphasis on the performative aspect inherent in any type of social expression and cultural artefact. The sixteen chapters in this volume present literature as carrying multifarious, at times opposing energies and impulses in relation to citizenship. These range from providing discursive arenas for consolidating, challenging and re-negotiating citizenship to directly interfering with or inspiring processes of law-making and governance. The volume opens up new possibilities for the scholarly understanding of citizenship along two axes: Citizenship-as-Literature: Enacting Citizenship and Citizenship-in-Literature: Conceptualising Citizenship.

The Rhetoric of Law

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472083862
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Law written by Austin Sarat and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1996-01-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn interdisciplinary critique of the relationship between words and the law /div

Law and Literature

Author : Kieran Dolin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108422819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Law and Literature written by Kieran Dolin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Literature presents an authoritative, fresh and accessible new overview of the many ways in which law and literature interact. Written by a team of international experts, it provides a multi-focused history of literary studies' critical interest in ideas of law and justice. It examines the effects of law on writers and their work, ranging from classical tragedy to comics, and from East Africa to Elizabethan England. Over twenty chapters, contributors reveal the intricate and multivalent historical interactions between law and literature, both past and present, and trace the intellectual genesis of the concept of law in literary studies, focusing on major developments in the history of the interdisciplinary project of law and literature, as well as the changing ideas of law, and the cultural contests in which it has figured. Law and Literature will appeal to graduates and scholars working on the intersection between law and literature and in key related areas such as literature and human rights.

Publishing Law

Author : Hugh Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317570979
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Publishing Law written by Hugh Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishing Law is an authoritative and engaging guide to a wide range of legal issues affecting publishing today. Hugh Jones and Christopher Benson present readers with clear and accessible guidance to the complex legal areas specific to the ever evolving world of contemporary publishing, including copyright, moral rights, contracts and licensing, privacy, confidentiality, defamation, infringement and trademarks, with analysis of legal issues relating to sales, advertising, marketing, distribution and competition. This new fifth edition presents updated coverage of the key principles of copyright , as well as new copyright exceptions, licensing and open access. There is also further in-depth coverage of the legal issues around the sale of digital content. Key features of the fifth edition include: updated coverage of EU and UK copyright, including a new chapter on copyright exceptions following the significant changes in the 2014 Regulations Comprehensive coverage of publishing contracts with authors, as well as with other providers, including translators, contributors and contracts for subsidiary rights up to date coverage of the Defamation Act 2013, and other changes to EU and UK legislation exploration of the legal issues relating to digital publishing, including eBook and other electronic agreements, data protection and online issues in relation to privacy, and copyright infringement a range of summary checklists on key issues, ranging from copyright ownership to promotion and data protection useful appendices offering an A to Z glossary of legal terms and lists of useful address and further reading.

Legal Fictions

Author : Jay Wishengrad
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780879515409
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Legal Fictions written by Jay Wishengrad and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for literary lawyers as well as the general reader, Legal Fictions is a comprehensive and entertaining literary look at a perennially fascinating and controversial subject - lawyers and the law.

Books, Crooks, and Counselors

Author : Leslie Budewitz
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781610350198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Books, Crooks, and Counselors written by Leslie Budewitz and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today's writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided along with excerpts of authentic courtroom dialogue. Topics covered include criminal and civil law; differences between federal, state, and Native American jurisdiction; police and private investigation; wills and inheritances; and the written and unwritten codes that govern the public and private conduct of lawyers and judges. Providing a quick and simple legal reference, this handbook is the key to creating innovative plots, strong conflicts, authentic characters, and gritty realism.

Research Handbook on Law and Literature

Author : Peter Goodrich
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781839102257
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Law and Literature written by Peter Goodrich and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and thought-provoking Research Handbook, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, lawyers, judges, and writers offer a range of perspectives on rethinking law by means of literary concepts. Presenting a comprehensive introduction to jurisliterary themes, it destabilises the traditional hierarchy that places law before literature and exposes the literary nature of the legal. Chapters explore multiple genres and modes, from travel reviews to graphic novels, from poetics to ghost-writing, from cartography to speculative fiction. Working with diverse methods and areas of inquiry, including enstrangement, colonial entanglements, blockchain narratives, transing and transgression of many kinds, matterphor, aesthetics and epistemology, this Research Handbook provides a systematic application of literary approaches to the reading of law. Scholars and students of jurisprudence, and those in the humanities with an interest in law and literature, will find this ground-breaking Research Handbook an indispensable guide. It also offers insight to international legal scholars looking for materialist accounts of law, as well as those interested in contemporary challenges to the rule of law.

Legal Aspect of Business (Mercantile Law)

Author : R S N Pillai
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8121935512
Total Pages : 1057 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Legal Aspect of Business (Mercantile Law) written by R S N Pillai and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to provide a means of systematic study in a simple way. The aim of the book is to present the subject matter in the most concise, to the point, lucid and illustrative manner. We are confident that the book will be an invalubale assest to the students of Mercentile Laws. A large number of examples and leading cases have been given with a view to helping students to understand the subject-matter clearly.

The Invention of Suspicion

Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615897
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Suspicion written by Lorna Hutson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama. These changes gradually made evidence evaluation a popular skill: justices of peace and juries were increasingly required to weigh up the probabilities of competing narratives of facts. At precisely the same time, English dramatists were absorbing, from Latin legal rhetoric and from Latin comedy, poetic strategies that enabled them to make their plays more persuasively realistic, more 'probable'. The result of this enormously rich conjunction of popular legal culture and ancient forensic rhetoric was a drama in which dramatis personae habitually gather evidence and 'invent' arguments of suspicion and conjecture about one another, thus prompting us, as readers and audience, to reconstruct this 'evidence' as stories of characters' private histories and inner lives. In this drama, people act in uncertainty, inferring one another's motives and testing evidence for their conclusions. As well as offering an overarching account of how changes in juridical epistemology relate to post-Reformation drama, this book examines comic dramatic writing associated with the Inns of Court in the overlooked decades of the 1560s and 70s. It argues that these experiments constituted an influential sub-genre, assimilating the structures of Roman comedy to current civic and political concerns with the administration of justice. This sub-genre's impact may be seen in Shakespeare's early experiments in revenge tragedy, history play and romance comedy, in Titus Andronicus, Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors, as well as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Bartholomew Fair and The Alchemist. The book ranges from mid-fifteenth century drama, through sixteenth century interludes to the drama of the 1590s and 1600s. It draws on recent research by legal historians, and on a range of legal-historical sources in print and manuscript.