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Un-disciplining literature : literature, law, and culture

Title
Un-disciplining literature : literature, law, and culture / edited by Kostas Myrsiades and Linda Myrsiades.
Publication
New York : Peter Lang, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Myrsiades, Kostas.
  • Myrsiades, Linda S.
Description
vi, 303 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; vol. 121
Uniform Title
  • College literature.
  • Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 121.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Knowledge and learning
  • English literature > History and criticism
  • Law in literature
  • Law
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Legal stories > History and criticism
  • Law and literature
  • Culture and law
Note
  • "A number of the essays printed here first appeared in College Literature 25.1 (Winter 1998) and 26.1 (Winter 1999)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction / Linda Myrsiades -- Storytelling and Legal Legitimacy / Jane B. Baron -- Stories and Verdicts: Bernard Goetz and New York in Crisis / Michael Brooks -- Rhetoric, Repetition, and Violence: A Case Study of Clinic Conflict in Milwaukee / Anne E. Shaw and Alane C. Spinney -- Refined Raw: The Symbolic Violence of Victim's Rights Reforms / Jennifer K. Wood -- Posner on Legal Texts: Law, Literature (Economics), and "Welcome Harassment" / Frances J. Ranney -- "Passport Please": Legal Literary, and Critical Fictions of Identity / Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps -- Narrative Pragmatics and the Genius of the Law in Lyotard's Just Gaming / Theron Britt -- Antonio's Legalistic Cruelty: Interdisciplinarity and The Merchant of Venice / Richard H. Weisberg -- Shakespeare's Richard II as Landlord and Wasting Tenant / Dennis R. Klinck -- The Trial in A Passage to India: "Justice" Under Colonial Conditions / Richard Clarke Sterne --
  • Law, Medicine, and the Sex Slave in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale / Linda Myrsiades -- Husbands, Wives, and Lawyers: Gender Roles and Professional Representations in Trollope and the Adelaide Bartlett Case / Paula Jean Reiter -- Fictive Tales, Real Lives: Problems With Reading Law as Literature / Patrick Colm Hogan.
ISBN
082044541X
LCCN
99015500
OCLC
ocm41265957
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries