The Legal ImaginationUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 dec 1985 - 302 pagina's 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 |
Inhoudsopgave
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 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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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