Law and literature / Richard A. Posner.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

3rd ed.

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Law in literature.

Law and literature.

Legal stories -- History and criticism.

Part I. Literary texts as legal texts

1. Reflections of law in literature

2. Law's beginnings: revenge as legal prototype and literary genre

3. Antinomies of legal theory

4. The limits of literary jurisprudence

5. Literary indictments of legal injustice

6. Two legal perspectives in Kafka

7. Penal theory in paradise lost

Part II. Legal texts as literaty texts

8. Interpreting contracts, statutes and constitutions

9. Judicial opinions as literature

Part III. How else might literature help law?

10. Literature as a source of background knowledge for law

11. Improving trial and appellate advocacy

12. But can literature humanize law?

Part IV. The regulation of literature by law

13. Protecting nonwriters

14. Protecting (other) writers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780674032460

xvi, 570 p. ; 24 cm