Affective Life of Law - Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination

Zusatztext "We abide within a legal culture; the scene of our existence is formed by law. Yet much in our experience seems to elude accounting by law's processes and languages. With passion and erudition, in readings as agile as they are original, Ravit Reichman reveals how a sense of this incongruity has itself shaped modern letters, modern law, and modern life." Informationen zum Autor Ravit Reichman is the Robert and Nancy Carney Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. Klappentext Ravit Reichman is the Robert and Nancy Carney Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. Zusammenfassung Through readings of literary works, legal opinions, and treatises, The Affective Life of Law demonstrates that both law and literature are necessary complements in the efforts to take responsibility for the loss and damage inflicted by the first and second World Wars.

Product details

• Authors: Ravit Reichman
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2009
• EAN: 9780804761666
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6166-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law; The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law