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Torture, Interrogation, And American Modernist Literature, Caleb Smith
Torture, Interrogation, And American Modernist Literature, Caleb Smith
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Originally given as part of a special session panel, "Torture and Interrogation," at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association in San Francisco, California, on December 27, 2008, this paper connects contemporary critical discussions of interrogation to the representation of lynching and police brutality in the early twentieth-century United States. It places American modernist literature, especially William Faulkner's Light in August, within a broad cultural tradition of thought about extralegal violence, and it argues that the novel's poetic strategies for depicting and analyzing such violence offer a diagnostic alternative to the sentimental discourse that dominates debates about interrogation in …
Law & Literature And The Moderns: Explorations, George Anastaplo
Law & Literature And The Moderns: Explorations, George Anastaplo
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Law and Literature courses are intended, at least in part, to supply the sound moral understanding as well as the elementary intellectual skills that law students need before they can learn to read in the way that is needed for a profession which very much depends upon disciplined reading and writing. Unfortunately, many if not most of the texts drawn upon in the Law and Literature courses are, or are treated as if they were, of the third or fourth rank. These are texts which are mined in such courses for "cases" and legal issues rather than approached as texts …