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The structures of law and literature : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination
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The structures of law and literature : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination / Jeffrey Miller.
ISBN
9780773541627 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0773541624 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780773541634 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0773541632 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780773588981 (ePDF)
0773588981 (ePDF)
9780773588998 (ePUB)
077358899X (ePUB)
Published
Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2013.
Physical Description
xi, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
Other formats
Issued also in electronic format.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 29, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-234) and index.
Contents
First principles and controversies: is law and literature more than a distraction for bored law professors?
Towards a typology, iconography, and symbology of law and literature
It's a dutiful day in the neighbourhood: duty as the fulcrum on the scales of justice and the centre of community
The evil that persons do: unreasonableness and the rejection or abnegation of duty
Humpty Dumpty in wig and gown: legalese as dialect, or, the philology of precedent
Putting it all together: the structures of law and literature: law as revolution, justice as nostalgia.
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