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What is The Literary Exception and the Rule of Law about?
Addressing the influential analysis of law and literature, this book offers a new perspective on their relationship. The law and literature movement that has gained global prominence in the course of last decades of the twentieth and the first decades of the twenty-first centuries has provided the research and teaching of law with a considerable body of new and valuable knowledge and understanding. Most of the knowledge and insights generated by the movement concern either a thematic overlap between legal and literary discourses – suggesting they deal with the same moral concerns – or a rhetorical, semiotic or general linguistic comparability or ‘sameness’ between them – imputing to both the same or very similar narrative structures. __The Literary Exception and the Rule of Law__ recognises the wealth of knowledge generated by this approach to the relationship between law and literature, and acknowledges its debt to this genre of scholarship. It nevertheless also proposes, on the basis of a number of revealing phenomenological inquiries, a different approach to law and literary studies: one that emphasises the irreducible difference between law and literature. It does so with the f
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Johan Willem Gous Van der Walt
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781000603866
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Law, Literary Criticism