| Description |
1 online resource (290 pages). |
| Series |
Law & literature ; 1
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Law, literature, and the predicament of representation -- Legitimate fictions: rhetoric and evidence in the law-and-literature movement -- Wieland's testimony: Charles Brockden Brown and the rhetoric of evidence -- The judge and the code: James Fenimore Cooper and the common law of literature -- Evidence and identification: the case(s) of To kill a mockingbird -- Dissenting opinions: William Gaddis, Alan Dershowitz and the spectacles of media justice. |
| Summary |
The book follows the changing relationship and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, by discussing exemplary novels by Charles B. Brown, J. Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee, and William Gaddis. Since the early American republic, the critical representation of legal matters in literary fictions and cultural narratives about the law served an important function for the cultural imagination and legitimation of law and justice in the United States. One of the most essential questions that literary representations of the law are concerned with is the unstable relation between language and truth, or, more specifically, between rhetoric and evidence. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Law in literature.
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Law and literature -- United States -- History.
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Law in mass media.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Law and literature. (OCoLC)fst00993913
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Law in literature. (OCoLC)fst00994014
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Law in mass media. (OCoLC)fst00994015
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schneck, Peter, 1960- Rhetoric and evidence. Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2011 (DLC) 2011015390 |
| ISBN |
9783110253771 (electronic bk.) |
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3110253771 (electronic bk.) |
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