Law and Literature - Current Legal Issues Volume 2

Zusatztext no review could do full justice to its variety of topic and approach. It is a fine collection. Informationen zum Autor Michael Freeman is Editor in Chief of Current Legal Publications and Editor of Current Legal Problems, he is Professor of English Law at UCL Andrew Lewis (Associate Editor of Current Legal Publications, General Editor of Current Legal Issues) is Senior Lecturer is Law at UCL Klappentext This is the second volume of a new series entitled `Current Legal Issues' that are to be published each Spring as a sister volume to `Current Legal Problems'. The second volume shows that although law is literature, it also features in literature such as Shakespeare, Dickens, and Hardy. It is a particular form of literature and is not always recognized as such. The law is also used to control literature through defamation, blasphemy, obscenity, etc. These are justsome of the many themes that are covered in this stimulating collection by leading writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Zusammenfassung This is the second volume of a series entitled 'Current Legal Issues'. It shows that although law is literature, it also features in literature such as Shakespeare, Dickens, and Hardy. The law is also used to control literature through defamation, blasphemy, obscenity, etc.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Freeman, Michael (Professor of English Law Freeman
• Assisted by: Michael Freeman (Editor), Freeman Michael (Editor), Andrew Lewis (Editor), Andrew D. E. Lewis (Editor), Lewis Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1999
• EAN: 9780198298137
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829813-7
• No. of pages: 796
• Series: Current Legal Issues; Current Legal Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Recht: Lehrbücher, Skripten, Prüfungsbücher, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LAW / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LAW / Reference, Legal Reference / Law Profession, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Literary theory, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law