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Index
Contents
Preface
Critical Introduction
Part I. Literary Texts as Legal Texts
1. Reflections of Law in Literature
Theoretical Considerations
The American Legal Novel
The Law in Popular Culture
Camus and Stendhal
Farcical Trials
2. Law’s Beginnings: Revenge as Legal Prototype and Literary Genre
Revenge Literature
The Iliad and Hamlet
3. Antinomies of Legal Theory
Has Law Gender?
4. The Limits of Literary Jurisprudence
Dickens
Wallace Stevens
5. Literary Indictments of Legal Injustice
Romantic Values in Literature and Law
Billy Budd, The Brothers Karamazov, and Law’s Limits
6. Two Legal Perspectives on Kafka
On Reading Kafka Politically
In Defense of Classical Liberalism
The Grand Inquisitor and Other Social Theorists
7. Penal Theory in Paradise Lost
The Punishment of Satan and His Followers
The Punishment of Man
The Punishment of the Animals
Part II. Legal Texts as Literary Texts
8. Interpreting Contracts, Statutes, and Constitutions
Interpretation Theorized
What Can Law Learn from Literary Criticism?
Chain Novels and Black Ink
Interpretation as Translation
9. Judicial Opinions as Literature
Aesthetic Integrity and the “Pure” versus the “Impure” Style
Two Cultures
Part III. How Else Might Literature Help Law?
10. Literature as a Source of Background Knowledge for Law
Arch of Triumph
From Huxley to The Matrix
11. Improving Trial and Appellate Advocacy
Legal Narratology
Fictional Depictions of Lawyers
The Funeral Orations in Julius Caesar
12. But Can Literature Humanize Law?
Then Why Read Literature?
Part IV. The Regulation of Literature by Law
13. Protecting Nonwriters
Defamation by Fiction
14. Protecting (Other) Writers
Copyright, Plagiarism, and Creativity
Parody
Conclusion. Law and Literature: A Manifesto
Index
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