Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Short Stories
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Book Description
This anthology brings together forty law-related short stories by writers from various times and places, including Boccaccio, Tolstoy, Poe, de Maupassant, Kafka, Cather, and Asimov. The stories demonstrate how writers have dealt with topics such as equality, finding the truth, capital punishment, and murder and domestic relations. The section introductions draw upon philosophy, psychology, literature, and law to point to the jurisprudential issues, and the reader is able to reflect on these timeless legal and ethical concerns. The volume concludes with lists of law-related fiction and films.
From the Publisher
"Either volume would be suitable for use not only in law schools, but also in humanities classes on college and university campuses; both are eminently teachable. Moreover, there is much here to attract any reader interested in the interrelations of law and literature."--MERTON A. SEALTS, JR., HENRY A. POCHMANN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, EMERITUS; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
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Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Short Stories
Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Short Stories,Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette,Praeger Publishers,0275940977,General,Legal Reference / Law Profession,Legal stories,Reference,Short Stories (Anthologies),Short Story
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