Title Law and literature / Richard A. Posner.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Edition	3rd ed.
Description	1 online resource (xvi, 570 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Reflections of law in literature -- Law's beginnings: revenge as legal prototype -- Antinomies of legal theory -- The limits of literary jurisprudence -- Literary indictments of legal injustice -- Two legal perspectives on Kafka -- Penal theory in Paradise lost -- Interpreting contracts, statutes, and constitutions -- Judicial opinions as literature -- Literature as a source of background knowledge for law -- Improving trial and appellate advocacy -- But can literature humanize law? -- Protecting nonwriters -- Protecting (other) writers -- Conclusion. Law and literature: A manifesto.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Law in literature.
	Law and literature.
	Legal stories -- History and criticism.
	TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
	Law and literature. (OCoLC)fst00993913
	Law in literature. (OCoLC)fst00994014
	Legal stories. (OCoLC)fst00995558
	Rechtstheorie.
	Rechtstaal.
	Bellettrie.
	Literatur.
	Recht.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Cover Title	Law & literature
Other Form:	Print version: Posner, Richard A. Law and literature. 3rd ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674032460 (DLC) 2008035602 (OCoLC)244293207
ISBN	9780674054417 (electronic bk.)
	0674054415 (electronic bk.)

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