The Legal ImaginationUniversity of Chicago Press, 1985 M12 15 - 302 páginas White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it. "A fascinating study of the language of the law. . . . This book is to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to read it, it will broaden the mind, and give lawyers a new insight into their role."—New Law Journal |
Contenido
Chapter 1 The Lawyer as Writer | 1 |
An Introduction To Your Literary Circumstances | 71 |
Chapter 3 How The Law Talks About People Who Is This Man? | 109 |
The Insanity Defense | 170 |
Chapter 4 The Imagination of the Lawyer | 207 |
A Is the Judge Really a Poet? | 211 |
What More Do We Find in the Poem and Opinion? | 212 |
The Education of the Imagination? | 216 |
3 More on the Judicial Opinion and the Poem | 236 |
B The Narrative Imagincation and the Claim of Meaning | 242 |
Addressing an Incompatibility of Discourse | 245 |
The Historian as Model for the Lawyers | 262 |
Clarendons History of the Rebellion | 273 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression James Boyd White Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
Admetus Alcestis ambiguity argument called caricature character claim Clarendon course court Cressida criminal D. H. Lawrence death defendant defined disease or defect E. M. Forster Eugene Marais event example experience explain express fact feeling Frost Georgetown Hospital give human imagine insanity insanity defense institutional James Joyce judge judgment judicial opinion jury kind labels language system lawyer legal language literary literature live look M'Naghten rule matter meaning ment mental disease metaphor mind Model Penal Code narrative nature never novel one's Parliament particular passage perhaps person play poem poet poetry possible psychiatrists question reader relationship response Robert Frost Rostov rule seems sense social sort speak speaker speech statement story talk Tarrington tell tension things thought Thucydides tion told Troilus voice Wallace Stevens words WRITING ASSIGNMENT
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