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...Jan-Melissa Schramm Abstract This essay traces the intense interrelatedness of the three discourses that we now consider distinct but that ask similar questions about the existential value of life and the relationship between spiritual and temporal matters. Law, literature, and theology address...

..., Religton, History, Law, and Literature. By BARBARAJ. SHAPIRO. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. x + 347 pp. $35.00. “The decade around 1660 is the birthtime of probability Thus Ian Hacking in the best philosophical account to study the origins of the idea of probability...

... complexities, the integration of law and literature in this regard is something of a forced marriage. Separation offers the wiser course of action. The major mission of the law is to offer intervention to protect against harms and to assure the performance of serious contractual arrangements. It could...

...] have somehow picked up along the way” and that this presents an endemic problem for our field. Jan-Melissa Schramm’s essay, which comes next, offers a helpful instance of how we might address this problem. Schramm, who works at the intersection of law, literature, and theology, reveals their extensive...

... it. The 29 Literature and Dogma, VII, 195. 30 Bishop Butler 6. the Zeitgeist (1877), IX, 291. 31 Ibid.. IX. 57. 32 Lite;atu& and Dogma, VII, 85. 33 In some contexts Arnold indicates differences between the promptings of conscience and those of the “natural law” (Literature and Dogma...

... of the Czte‘what she does elsewhere in the epis- tolary world of the querelle de la Rose: to engage rhetorically in the debate with men about rhetoric, law, literature, and theology. And she does so by problematizing and attacking the very locus for the storage and transmission of their disciplinary...

... began to develop the central comparison between the Deca- logue and the Bill of Rights as an independent essay in a paper delivered at a con- ference on law and literature that was generously hosted by Brook Thomas at the University of California, Irvine, in 2001. Since then the essay has benefi ted...

... an aesthetic conception that fostered open expression of things not otherwise presentable in public discourse. Ross turns to the law to substantiate and illustrate his view of the fundamental changes in the understanding of literature during the eighteenth century. Court cases and legal proceedings dealing...

... and working on a book-length study of Renaissance addictions. Kezar ❙ Shakespeare’s Verdict in All Is True 3 strates how Solon’s antitheatrical legacy structures current thinking about the proper relation between the law and literature.5 The danger Dershowitz identifies lies...

... postulating a guilty subjectivity. And also a pact. On the face of it, then, this is how fictions of cultural identity seem to deal with crime. Crime is also defined by the state and its laws and constitutes the field of state illegality, which is what the state excludes within its inte...

... and thence transferred to the field of philol- ogy by Grimm. For them, historicism meant the study of human culture as a diachronic growth process: “to understand what is in terms of how it came to be.”12 Although law and literature are now divided into separate facul- ties and spheres of learning...

... of political, legal, and intellectual tradition brought here by our colonists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”1 Detweiler’s claim that Anglo-­Saxonism — most notably, the reception of and schol- arship on Anglo-­Saxon texts — exists in toto as a “body” of thoughts, literature, and meaning...

...Haun Saussy University of Washington 2007 Haun Saussy is Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. His most recent book is the edited collection Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (2006). Among...

... and F. L1. Harrison (London: Faber and Faber, 1979), pp. 142-43,299-300. 2 Luisi, “Foweles in the Frith,” Expl, 25 (1967): #47; Robertson, ed., The Literature of Medieval England (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970), p. 348; Chickerin , “‘Foweles in pe frith’: A Religious Art-Song,” PQ, 50 (1971...

... is author of James Joyce's“Ulysses”: A Book of Many Happy Returns (1982), Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville (1987), The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics (1991), and American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract (1997) . He has also...

... : History of Greece, 8 volumes (no date) Peter Charron: Of Wisdom (tr. from the French by Lennard), 1670 Bacon : Advancement of Learning, 1623 Milton : Historical, Folitical and Miscellaneow Works, 1698 Sidney : Arcadia (no date) Burton : Anatomy of Melancholy (no date) Hooker: Of the Laws...

...Kevin Pask Literary history has largely ignored its own origins in the late Renaissance, and we still lack a full account of how literary history, based in the European vernacular literatures, emerged during the early modern period. Pask attempts to redress this lack by arguing, primarily through...

...Carla Freccero © 2004 University of Washington 2004 Carla Freccero is chair of the Department of Literature at the University of California,Santa Cruz. Her books include Premodern Sexualities (1996), coedited with Louise Fradenburg, and Popular Culture: An Introduction (1999). She...

...James Thompson Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Law of Property . By Wolfram Schmidgen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 266 pp. © 2005 University of Washington 2005 James Thompson is professor and chair of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

... G. WILSON KNIGHT the great writers of literature, mixes a clear-eyed perception of the things of this wrld with a secure sense of the next, so that our sights, our habits, our laws, our hopes and fears can be made into symbols and signs of the cosmic laws. When Shakespeare has music...