Literature and law /
Literature and law /
edited by Michael J. Meyer.
- 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) : illustrations.
- Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; 30 .
- Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 30. .
Includes: Representing lawyers: Edith Wharton's portrayal of lawyers and lawyering in The Touchstone and Summner / Deborah Hecht.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / RETRYING THE STRANGER AGAIN / THE SILENT VOICES OF THE LAW / LAW AND ORDER: EXPLORING THE BRITISH LEGAL SYSTEM IN DAVID HARE’S MURMURING JUDGES / CRIMINAL APPREHENSIONS: PRAGUE MINORITIES AND THE HABSBURG LEGAL SYSTEM IN JAROSLAV HAŠEK’S THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK AND FRANZ KAFKA’S THE TRIAL / SILENCE IN THE COURTROOM: LANGUAGE, LITERATURE,AND LAW IN THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER / REPRESENTING LAWYERS: EDITH WHARTON’S PORTRAYAL OF LAWYERS AND LAWYERING IN THE TOUCHSTONE AND SUMMER / RITUAL MURDER AND THE CORRUPTION OF LAW IN BERNARD MALAMUD’S THE FIXER / “HOW SHALL WE CHANGE THE LAW?”: BIRTH CONTROL RHETORIC AND THE MODERN AMERICAN NARRATIVE / PUTTING GOD ON TRIAL:THE RELATIONSHIP OF KAFKA TO LEIBNIZ / MUMIA ABU-JAMAL’S LIVE FROM DEATH ROW AS POST-LEGAL PRISON WRITING / THE LETTER OF THE LAW AND CANADIAN LETTERS: JOY KOGAWA’S OBASAN / PRIOR CLAIMS AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS:THE SEXUAL CONTRACT IN EDITH WHARTON’S SUMMER / SITUATING ATTICUS IN THE ZONE:A LAWYER AND HIS DAUGHTER READ HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / CHALLENGING THE COURT: CHARLES CHESNUTT’S MARROW OF TRADITION / ABOUT THE AUTHORS / Michael J. Meyer -- Mary Ann Frese Witt and Eric Witt -- Susan Ayres -- Karen C. Blansfield -- Jenifer Cushman -- Gwen Mcneill Ashburn -- Deborah Hecht -- Eric Sterling -- Beth Widmaier Capo -- Joseph Suglia -- Brian Conniff -- Ana María Frailé-Marcos -- Alicia Renfroe -- Nancy Lawson Remler and Hugh Lawson -- Gwen Mathewson -- Michael J. Meyer.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
In recent years, there has been a continuing and persistent world-wide interest in the interaction between the two disciplines of law and literature. Although there have been many collections of primary texts that combined these two areas, this volume presents literary analyses and criticism in an attempt to assess the varied relationships between law and justice, between lawyers and clients, and between readers’ perceptions and authors’ intent, hopefully suggesting why they have continually been yoked together. One similarity between the two is that lawyers, like writers, must catch their audience’s attention by novelty of scene, distinctiveness of voice, and ingenuity of design. Furthermore, legal advocates must recreate a concrete sense of reality, developing vivid and valid pictures of a specific time and place. In short, both lawyers and writers attempt to provide a basis for juries / readers to judge defendants / characters by their motivations and their actions and to decide whether a favorable ruling / assessment is justified. Collectively, the essays in this book are designed to deal with themes of guilt and innocence, right and wrong, morality and legality. The essays also suggest that the world as it is delineated by lawyers is indeed a text that like its literary counterparts sometimes blurs the distinction between fact and fiction as it attempts to define “truth” and to establish criteria for “impartial” justice. By exploring interdisciplinary contexts, readers will surely be made more aware, more sensitive to the roles that stories play in the legal profession and to the dilemmas faced by legal systems that often succeed in maintaining the rights and privileges of a dominant societal group at the expense of a less powerful one.
9789401201315
10.1163/9789401201315 DOI
Law in literature.
Law and literature.
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
PN56.L33 / L37 2004eb
809.933554
Includes: Representing lawyers: Edith Wharton's portrayal of lawyers and lawyering in The Touchstone and Summner / Deborah Hecht.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / RETRYING THE STRANGER AGAIN / THE SILENT VOICES OF THE LAW / LAW AND ORDER: EXPLORING THE BRITISH LEGAL SYSTEM IN DAVID HARE’S MURMURING JUDGES / CRIMINAL APPREHENSIONS: PRAGUE MINORITIES AND THE HABSBURG LEGAL SYSTEM IN JAROSLAV HAŠEK’S THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK AND FRANZ KAFKA’S THE TRIAL / SILENCE IN THE COURTROOM: LANGUAGE, LITERATURE,AND LAW IN THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER / REPRESENTING LAWYERS: EDITH WHARTON’S PORTRAYAL OF LAWYERS AND LAWYERING IN THE TOUCHSTONE AND SUMMER / RITUAL MURDER AND THE CORRUPTION OF LAW IN BERNARD MALAMUD’S THE FIXER / “HOW SHALL WE CHANGE THE LAW?”: BIRTH CONTROL RHETORIC AND THE MODERN AMERICAN NARRATIVE / PUTTING GOD ON TRIAL:THE RELATIONSHIP OF KAFKA TO LEIBNIZ / MUMIA ABU-JAMAL’S LIVE FROM DEATH ROW AS POST-LEGAL PRISON WRITING / THE LETTER OF THE LAW AND CANADIAN LETTERS: JOY KOGAWA’S OBASAN / PRIOR CLAIMS AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS:THE SEXUAL CONTRACT IN EDITH WHARTON’S SUMMER / SITUATING ATTICUS IN THE ZONE:A LAWYER AND HIS DAUGHTER READ HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD / CHALLENGING THE COURT: CHARLES CHESNUTT’S MARROW OF TRADITION / ABOUT THE AUTHORS / Michael J. Meyer -- Mary Ann Frese Witt and Eric Witt -- Susan Ayres -- Karen C. Blansfield -- Jenifer Cushman -- Gwen Mcneill Ashburn -- Deborah Hecht -- Eric Sterling -- Beth Widmaier Capo -- Joseph Suglia -- Brian Conniff -- Ana María Frailé-Marcos -- Alicia Renfroe -- Nancy Lawson Remler and Hugh Lawson -- Gwen Mathewson -- Michael J. Meyer.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
In recent years, there has been a continuing and persistent world-wide interest in the interaction between the two disciplines of law and literature. Although there have been many collections of primary texts that combined these two areas, this volume presents literary analyses and criticism in an attempt to assess the varied relationships between law and justice, between lawyers and clients, and between readers’ perceptions and authors’ intent, hopefully suggesting why they have continually been yoked together. One similarity between the two is that lawyers, like writers, must catch their audience’s attention by novelty of scene, distinctiveness of voice, and ingenuity of design. Furthermore, legal advocates must recreate a concrete sense of reality, developing vivid and valid pictures of a specific time and place. In short, both lawyers and writers attempt to provide a basis for juries / readers to judge defendants / characters by their motivations and their actions and to decide whether a favorable ruling / assessment is justified. Collectively, the essays in this book are designed to deal with themes of guilt and innocence, right and wrong, morality and legality. The essays also suggest that the world as it is delineated by lawyers is indeed a text that like its literary counterparts sometimes blurs the distinction between fact and fiction as it attempts to define “truth” and to establish criteria for “impartial” justice. By exploring interdisciplinary contexts, readers will surely be made more aware, more sensitive to the roles that stories play in the legal profession and to the dilemmas faced by legal systems that often succeed in maintaining the rights and privileges of a dominant societal group at the expense of a less powerful one.
9789401201315
10.1163/9789401201315 DOI
Law in literature.
Law and literature.
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
PN56.L33 / L37 2004eb
809.933554