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100			_aPosner Richard
245			_aLaw and literature
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260			_aLondon _bHarvard University Press _c2009
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505			_a 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
650			_a1. Law & Literature2. Legal Fiction3. Legal Stories - History - Criticism
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