Contents
Preface;
Critical Introduction;
Part 1. Literary Texts as Legal Texts;
1. Reflections of Law in Literature Theoretical Considerations;
The American Legal Novel ;
The Law in Popular Culture;
Camus and Stendhal ;
Farcical Trials;
2. Law's Beginnings: Revenge as Legal Prototype and Literary Genre The Logic of Revenge;
Revenge Literature;
The Iliad and Hamlet;
3. Antinomies of Legal Theory Jurisprudential Drama from Sophocles to Shelley ;
Has Law Gender?
4. The Limits of Literary Jurisprudence;
Kafka ;
Dickens;
Wallace Stevens;
5. Literary Indictments of Legal Injustice Law and Ressentiment ;
Romantic Values in Literature and Law;
Billy Budd, The Brothers Karamazov, and Law's Limits;
6. Two Legal Perspectives on Kafka On Reading Kafka Politically;
In Defense of Classical Liberalism;
The Grand Inquisitor and Other Social Theorists;
7. Penal Theo.ry in Paradise Lost The Punishment of Satan and His Followers;
The Punishment of Man;
The Punishment of the Animals;
Part II. Legal Texts as Literary Texts;
8. Interpreting Contracts, Statutes, and Constitutions Interpretation Theorized;
What Can Law Learn from Literary Criticism?
Chain Novels and Black Ink;
Interpretation as Translation;
9. Judicial Opinions as Literature Meaning, Style, and Rhetoric;
Aesthetic Integrity and the "Pure" versus the "Impure" Style;
Two Cultures;
Part III. How Else Might Literature Help Law?
10. Literature as a Source of Background Knowledge for Law Arch of Triumph;
From Huxley to The Matrix;
11. Improving Trial and Appellate Advocacy Sherlock Holmes to the Rescue?
Legal Narratology ;
Fictional Depictions of Lawyers;
The Funeral Orations in Julius Caesar;
12. But Can Literature Humanizt Law? Aesthetic versus Moralistic Literary Criticism;
Then Why Read Literature?
Part IV. The Regulation of Literature by Law;
13• Protecting Nonwriters Pornographic Fiction;
Defamation by Fiction;
14. "Protecting ( Other) Writers
What Is an ''Author''?
Copyright, Plagiarism, and Creativity;
Parody;
Conclusion. Law and Literature: A Manifesto;
Index