The structures of law and literature : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination / Jeffrey Miller.
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TextPublication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 242) pagesContent type: - text
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- PN56.L33 M55 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature.
English.
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