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Article: Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy.
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- March 22, 1998
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Judge Richard A. Posner identified five important connections between law and literature: (1) law is a theme in literature; (2) both legal and literary scholarship treat the meaning of texts; (3) legal texts, like literature, employ rhetoric; (4) literature is regulated by law; and (5) legal process has features in common with drama.(1) These connections provided the chief topics for Posner's book and exhausted for him the relevant relations of law and literature.
Absent from his list was the way literature forms part of those cultural forces that shape law and determine our understanding of law. But the omission was deliberate. Although no one has done more ...
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