... characterized the novel’s significance in this way in order to show that the so-called fair use doctrine in US copyright law protects from copyright infringement any literature that communicates free, political speech. Although SunTrust Bank won the case in District Court, the Court of Appeals...

...Elizabeth S. Anker This essay analyzes how Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! rewrites and overturns a number of the generic and other conventions that have typically been enlisted to theorize the novel's bearing on democracy. Political philosophy and law have advanced a number of enabling fictions...

... to attack the validity of introspective psychology and therefore the literature built upon it. Marcel’s memories, we are told, are not prac- tices of mind so much as they are involuntary, physiological reflexes. “The laws of memory,” we read, “are subject to the more general laws of habit...

...Eleni Coundouriotis [email protected] Sal Nicolazzo , Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police ( New Haven, CT : Yale UP , 2020 ), pp. 310 , cloth, $65.00 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 Until recently, scholars of law...

..., Legalisms and Assorted Legislations .” REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 18 ( 2002 ): 89 – 107 . Dolgin Janet L. “ Choice, Tradition, and the New Genetics: The Fragmentation of the Ideology of Family .” Connecticut Law Review 32 ( 2000 ): 523 – 66...

... . Saint-Amour , Paul K . The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003 . Schramm , Jan-Melissa . Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000 . Smith , Adam . The Theory of Moral...

... and the Novel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002), pp. 216, $41.00. The paths of law and literature have converged in recent years, as literary and legal scholars have fruitfully explored how matters of interpretation, evaluation, and judgment inflect their respective fields. As of late, however...

...; or Virtue Rewarded rights discourse injury law and literature sexual violence This article proposes that we read Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded as testimony—a plea, a record of assault. Or better, a complaint. Pamela herself characterizes her story this way: 1 O Let me take...

...Yue Zhuo GASCHÉ RODOLPHE , The Stelliferous Fold: Toward A Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation ( New York : Fordham UP , 2011 ), pp. 406 , paper, $35.00 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Work Cited Gasché Rodolphe . Inventions of Difference...

...? By exploring these questions first in law and then in literature, I do not claim merely that the two offer different ap- proaches to the same sets of circumstances-though in part, this is often the case. Rather, I intend to explore their different responses to injuries in order to identify...

... and action are not exceptions to the law of liberal individualism; they are the confusions that are its only history” (6). While well-versed in Romantic and liberal political theory, Stout chooses to project these concerns onto an analysis of two adjacent discourses, law and literature. In the first...

... Stoekl, Carl R. Lovitt, and Donald M. Leslie Jr. Theory and History of Literature . Vol 14 . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989 . XX –XX. Butler , Judith . The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997 . Dasen , Véronique . Dwarfs in Ancient...

... of religious fervor is one of Smith's main points. The book charts a dual transformation in American culture over the first half of the nineteenth century—the rise of law as an impersonal (rather than divinely ordained) system of justice and the concomitant rise of resistance movements that claimed...

...Saikat Majumdar © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 JOSEPH R. SLAUGHTER, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law (New York: Fordham UP, 2007), pp. 435, paper, $28.00. Incorporated into Humanity joseph r. slaughter, Human Rights, Inc...

... Christopher P. The Labor of Words: Literary Professionalism in the Progressive Era . Athens : U of Georgia P , 1985 . Woodmansee Martha Jaszi Peter , eds. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature . Durham : Duke UP , 1994 . The Paradox...

... . “ Theorizing Corporate Intentionality in Contemporary American Fiction .” Law and Literature 27 . 1 ( 2015 ): 1 – 25 . Turner H. S. The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516–1651 . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2016 . Uhlmann Anthony . Beckett...

...Ryan Canlas This essay reads Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of literary “engagement” alongside Hannah Arendt's writings on literature as a way of establishing the importance that both writers accord to the practice of reading literature as a form of aesthetic judgment. By paying particular attention...

... is admittedly intricate, for Macpherson offers more than a new theory of the novel, more too than a model of criticism at the crossroads of law and literature. Here is a profound work of moral and aesthetic philosophy poised to transform not just the way we read eighteenth-century narrative but the way we...

... life its own to dispose of. But hence also the gesture that closes Hardy’s defense of this, his last novel, which implicitly opposes the letter of literature—nothing more or less than the modern art of writing, by Rancie`re’s definition—to the letter of the law. The novelist’s postscript...

... that the once peripheral literature and cinema that conformed to Fredric Jameson's definition of Third World national allegories can now be read as symptoms of First World cultural production. This historical and aesthetic shift has made itself felt at the heart of Israeli daily life in the rearticulation...