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001 2013433527
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005 20131101085130.0
008 130828s2013 quc b 001 0 eng
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020 $z9780773588981 (ePDF)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn818414795
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050 00 $aPN56.L33$bM55 2013
082 04 $a809/.933554$223
100 1 $aMiller, Jeffrey,$d1950-
245 14 $aThe structures of law and literature :$bduty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination /$cJeffrey Miller.
260 $aMontréal ;$aIthaca :$bMcGill-Queen's University Press,$cc2013.
300 $axi, 242 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234) and index.
505 0 $aFirst principles and controversies: is law and literature more than a distraction for bored law professors? -- Towards a typology, iconography, and symbology of law and literature -- It's a dutiful day in the neighbourhood: duty as the fulcrum on the scales of justice and the centre of community -- The evil that persons do: unreasonableness and the rejection or abnegation of duty -- Humpty Dumpty in wig and gown: legalese as dialect, or, the philology of precedent -- Putting it all together: the structures of law and literature: law as revolution, justice as nostalgia.
530 $aIssued also in electronic format.
650 0 $aLaw and literature.
650 0 $aLaw in literature.
650 0 $aLegal literature$xHistory.
650 0 $aSociological jurisprudence.