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New directions in law and literature
Title
New directions in law and literature / edited by Elizabeth S. Anker and Bernadette Meyler.
ISBN
9780190456368
0190456361
9780190456375
019045637X
9780190456382
0190456388
9780190456399
Publication
[New York, NY] : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017.
Physical Description
vi, 437 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
This collection of essays by twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments and law schools showcases the vibrancy of recent work in law and literature and highlights its many new directions since the field's heyday in the 1970s and 80s.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 09, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-414) and index.
Contents
Minding previous steps taken / Brook Thomas
Who wouldn't want to be a person? : histories of the present in law and literature / Caleb Smith
From charisma to routinization and beyond : speculations on the future of the study of law and literature / Austin Sarat
There's no such thing as interpreting a text / Martin Jay Stone
Retrospective prophecies : legal narrative constructions / Peter Brooks
Law's affective thickets / Ravit Reichman
Paranoia, feminism, law : reflections on the possibilities for queer legal studies / Janet Halley
Proof and probability : law, imagination, and the forms of things unknown / Lorna Hutson
Law, literature, and history : the love triangle / Bernadette Meyler
Pictures as precedents : the visual turn and the status of figures in judgments / Peter Goodrich
Law as performance : historical interpretation, objects, lexicons, and other methodological problems / Julie Stome Peters
Globalizing law and literature / Elizabeth S. Anker
Ornament and law / Anne Anlin Cheng
The flowers are vexed : gender justice, black literature, and the passionate utterance / Imani Perry
Genocide by other means : US federal Indian law and violence against Native women in Louise Erdrich's The Round House / Eric Cheyfitz and Shari M. Huhndorf
Pluralism, religion, and democratic culture : Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers / Elliott Visconsi
Regulatory fictions : on marriage and countermarriage / Elizabeth F. Emens
Legal and literary fictions / Simon Stern
Copyright and intellectual property / Paul K. Saint-Amour
Replicant being : law and strange life in the age of biotechnology / Priscilla Wald
Weak reparation : law and literature networked / Wai Chee Dimock.
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