Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and Culture

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Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and Culture

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This collection offers fresh and challenging essays by scholars in law, English and comparative literature, social and political thought, and communication studies. It explores unique angles of vision that allow us to read legal opinions as well as criminal cases, abortion clinic violence, trial testimony (victim impact statements), legal authority, and legal fictions of personal and national identity (passports). The literature it analyzes ranges from Shakespeare's Richard II and The Merchant of Venice to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Anthony Trollope's Orley Farm, and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Providing a breadth of material, this collection breaks through disciplinary boundaries as new voices challenge old paradigms, pushing marginalized questions into the center of the literature and law enterprise.

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978-0820445410

Publication Date

1-11-2000

Publisher

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

City

Bern, Switzerland

Disciplines

Comparative Literature | Educational Methods | Law and Society

Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and Culture

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