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Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers And Arts Policy, Michigan Law Review
Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers And Arts Policy, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Patrons Despite Themselves: Taxpayers and Arts Policy by Alan L. Feld, Michael O'Hare, and J. Mark Davidson Schuster
The Judicial Opinion And The Poem: Ways Of Reading, Ways Of Life, James Boyd White
The Judicial Opinion And The Poem: Ways Of Reading, Ways Of Life, James Boyd White
Michigan Law Review
This paper is an essay in what I want to call the poetics of the law. I begin with a largely autobiographical account of what seems to me a striking similarity in the ways in which poetry and law once were taught - and to some degree still are taught, though perhaps less comfortably so. My first object is to suggest some connections: between these two kinds of thought and expression; between the ways in which we are habituated to read texts of each sort; and between the dilemmas that confront readers and critics in each field. In doing these …