| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 242) p. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 First Principles and Controversies: Is Law and Literature More Than a Distraction for Bored Law Professors? -- 2 Towards a Typology, Iconography, and Symbology of Law and Literature -- 3 It's a Dutiful Day in the Neighbourhood: Duty as the Fulcrum on the Scales of Justice and the Centre of Community -- 4 The Evil That Persons Do: Unreasonableness and the Rejection or Abnegation of Duty -- 5 Humpty Dumpty in Wig and Gown: Legalese as Dialect, or, the Philology of Precedent -- 6 Putting It All Together: The Structures of Law and Literature -- Law as Revolution, Justice as Nostalgia -- Glossary of Some Terms Used in This Book. |
| Summary |
A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law and literature.
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Law and literature. |
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Law in literature.
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Law in literature. |
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Legal literature -- History.
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Legal literature. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miller, Jeffrey. Structures of Law and Literature : Duty, Justice, and Evil in the Cultural Imagination. Montreal : MQUP, ©2014 9780773541627 |
| ISBN |
9780773541627 |
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9780773588981 |
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0773588981 (electronic book) |
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9780773588981 |
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9780773588998 |
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077358899X |
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9780773541634 paperback alkaline paper |
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