The Structures of Law and Literature by Jeffrey Miller
By Jeffrey Miller
The buildings of legislation and Literature strikes past the works often studied within the box (Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Harper Lee) to contemplate conventional ballads, the biblical narratives of Moses and task, literature from South Africa and France, in addition to works in Yiddish and Hebrew, the poetry of W.B. Yeats, tales via John Updike, John Mortimer, and John Sayles, Scottish nationalist writing via James Kelman, the golem legend from the Talmud to fashionable novels, and extra. It additionally investigates legalese as a dialect in a universe of its personal making, offers a concise precis of the total procedure proposed, and concludes with essays on chosen works that render the method's software quite graphic.
Original and systematically argued, The buildings of legislation and Literature is a provocative paintings that provides new dimensions to the cultural interaction of legislation and the humanities.
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