ENGLISH

Rhetoric and Evidence

By Peter Schneck

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2011
ISBN
3110253763, 9783110253764
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1118858 bytes)
Series
Law & Literature 1
Pages
291\299
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-10-30 01:25:04
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Description

The book follows the changing relationship and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, by discussing exemplary novels by Charles B. Brown, J. Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee, and William Gaddis. Since the early American republic, the critical representation of legal matters in literary fictions and cultural narratives about the law served an important function for the cultural imagination and legitimation of law and justice in the United States. One of the most essential questions that literary representations of the law are concerned with is the unstable relation between language and truth, or, more specifically, between rhetoric and evidence.

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