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    Law and literature : interdisciplinary methods of reading / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen & Ditlev Tamm (eds.).

    • Title:Law and literature : interdisciplinary methods of reading / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen & Ditlev Tamm (eds.).
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, 1962-
      Tamm, Ditlev.
    • Published/Created:Copenhagen : DJØF Publishing, ©2010
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Law and literature.
      Law in literature.
    • Edition:1st ed.
    • Description:95 pages ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Bibliotek for ret og kultur ; v. 3.
    • Summary:How do we read the law and what images of law do we find in literary texts? What happens when literary and legal scholars respectively read and interpret the law in literary texts? And what role does narration play in the cultural understanding of law? In this book lawyers and literary scholars are brought together in a common discussion of texts by Shakespeare, Camus and Katherine Ann Porter and of narrations about human rights. The essays are written by a number of literary and legal scholars. All are pioneers within the law and literature movement respectively in USA. The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. -- P. [4] of cover.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9788757418781
    • Contents:Introduction / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen and Ditlev Tamm
      Rich, sweet, and tender vs. sour, displeased and upset : two ways of seeing things in 'Noon Wine" / Richard H. Weisberg
      'The Bloody Book of Law', some remarks on the interrelation of law, medicine, and the behavioral sciences in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice' / Jeanne Gaakeer
      The menace of Venice, or, reading and performing the law in.of The Merchant of Venice / Leif Dahlberg
      Killing an Arab = ? on judgments as literature and literature as judgment / Arild Linneberg
      Law as a tale of identity - and some perspectives on human rights law / Sten Schaumburg-Mùˆller
      Europe as contested terrain : on European narratives of human rights / Helle Porsdam.
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