The Structures of Law and Literature: Duty, Justice, and Evil in the Cultural Imagination 9780773588981

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The Structures of Law and Literature: Duty, Justice, and Evil in the Cultural Imagination 9780773588981

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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