Fictional discourse and the law. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hans J. Lind.
• Editors: Lind, Hans J
• Contents: Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of contributors Part I. From Narrative to Fiction in Legal Theory and Practice Chapter 1 Theorizing Fictional Discourse: Toward a Re-Assessment of the Fact-Fiction-Dichotomy in Legal Theory and Practice (Hans Lind) Part II. The Ubiquity of Fictional Discourse in Legal Theory and Practice Chapter 2.1 Fictions of Constitutional Privacy: Toward a Linguistic Subject (Cynthia Merrill) Chapter 2.2 Adultery, Criminality and the Fiction of the King's Body (Erin Sheley) Chapter 2.3 Memory, History, and Forgetting: Shelby County v. Alabama (Laura Cisneros) Chapter 2.4. Deconstructing the Fiction of Contract (Tal Kastner) Part III. A Matter of Evidence? Fact and Fiction in the Courtroom Chapter 3.1 Dying Declarations (Peter Brooks) Chapter 3.2 Rap as Courtroom Reality (Hans Lind) Chapter 3.3 Fiction as Courtroom Fact? Exploration Accounts as Evidence in Aboriginal Rights and Title Litigation (Luis Campos) Part IV: Fictional Discourse as Law’s Mirror and Cradle: Metafictional Qualities of Law in Literature Chapter 4.1 ‘A Fearful and Wonderful Institution’: Representing Law in Sensational Novels (Sara Murphy) Chapter 4.2 Fictions of Corporate Intention: The Epistemological Problem of the Good Corporation (Lisa Siraganian) Chapter 4.3 Remedial Fictions: The Novelization of Habeas Corpus and the History of Human Rights (Sarah Winter) Part V: Fictional Discourse and the Law: A Theoretical Perspective Chapter 5.1 Legal Fictions and Legal Fabrication (Simon Stern) Chapter 5.2 Linguistic Fictions and Legal Rule (Hans Lind) Chapter 5.3 Cognitive Fictionalizing and Legal Legitimacy (Karen Petroski) Chapter 5.4 Law as Authoritative Fiction (Andrei Marmor)
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.933554; Law and literature; Discourse analysis, Literary; Discourse analysis, Narrative; Literature -- Philosophy; LAW / General; LAW / Jurisprudence; LAW / Legal Writing; Discourse analysis, Literary; Discourse analysis, Narrative; Law and literature; Literature -- Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429468414; 0429468415; 9780429887611; 0429887612; 9780429887628; 0429887620; 9780429887604; 0429887604
• Related ISBNs: 9781138604759; 1138604755
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2020).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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