Rhetoric and Evidence

Legal Conflict and Literary Representation in U.S. American Culture
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025376-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 291 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

Reihe: ISSN

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneck, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Beziehungen des Rechts zu anderen Disziplinen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Schneck, University ofOsnabrück, Germany.