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Full-Text Articles in Law
Law And Literature: Representing Lesbians, Anne B. Goldstein
Law And Literature: Representing Lesbians, Anne B. Goldstein
Faculty Scholarship
What is involved in representing a lesbian in law or in literature? The premise of this Article is that the work of novelists is enough like the work of lawyers that useful insights can be drawn in at least one direction. That is, lawyers can learn how to represent lesbian clients better by studying books with lesbian characters.
On The Author Effect: Contemporary Copyright And Collective Creativity, Peter Jaszi
On The Author Effect: Contemporary Copyright And Collective Creativity, Peter Jaszi
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
As exemplified by the articles in this volume, recent scholarship on "authorship" reflects various influences. Among the most important are Michel Foucault's article, What is an Author?, and Benjamin Kaplan's book, An Unhurried View of Copyright. Since the late 1960s, these two texts have influenced work in literary and legal studies respectively. Only recently, however, have the lines of inquiry that Foucault and Kaplan helped to initiate begun to converge.
Mysteries Of Violence And Self-Defense: Myths For Men, Cautionary Tales For Women, Marianne Wesson
Mysteries Of Violence And Self-Defense: Myths For Men, Cautionary Tales For Women, Marianne Wesson
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The Jurisprudence Of Jane Eyre, Anita L. Allen
The Jurisprudence Of Jane Eyre, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
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The Constitution As Literature, James Boyd White
The Constitution As Literature, James Boyd White
Book Chapters
Although presumably no one would say that the Constitution offers its readers an experience that cannot be distinguished from reading a poem or a novel, there is nonetheless a sense in which it is a kind of highly imaginative literature in its own right (indeed its nature as law requires that this be so), the reading of which may be informed by our experience of other literary forms. But to say this may be controversial, and the first step toward understanding how such a claim can be made may be to ask what it is we think characterizes imaginative literature …