| Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and Culture Contributor(s): Steinberg, Shirley R. (Editor), Kincheloe, Joe L. (Editor), Myrsiades, Kostas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 082044541X ISBN-13: 9780820445410 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 99015500 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Series: Counterpoints |
| Physical Information: 306 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |