College Literature articles from January 1998

College Literature archives from January 1998

Antonio's legalistic cruelty: interdisciplinarity and "The Merchant of Venice."
January 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION The Law and Literature movement now involves hundreds of scholars across the disciplines. Among the movement's contributions to scholarship and teaching in literature has been its attention to several well-worked "legalistic"...

Shakespeare's Richard II as landlord and wasting tenant.
January 1, 1998... If waste be made by a tenant for a term of life of houses or of gardens . . ., although it be of one house or twenty apple-trees in a garden, the tenant will lose the whole messuage; and so he will lose the whole garden. (Bereford 274) That...

Grisham's demons. (novelist John Grisham)
January 1, 1998... What are we to make of John Grisham? Up until last year, no one seemed more successful at integrating the roles of lawyer and novelist. Since 1991, at least one new best-selling novel appeared each year - The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client,...

Husbands, wives, and lawyers: gender roles and professional representation in Trollope and the Adelaide Bartlett case.
January 1, 1998... There is, however, one subject which Mr. Trollope pursues with unremitting zeal. He cannot bear a lawyer. They are all rogues, not by nature, but by profession. Smalley 156(1) The long list of memorable lawyers that grace Anthony Trollope's...

Storytelling and legal legitimacy.
January 1, 1998... Anyone who has not slept through the last few years will have observed that a tremendous rift has grown up between the legal profession and the lay public. When rodeo style "great lawyer roundups" can be used to sell beer, when the burning...

Stories and verdicts: Bernhard Goetz and New York in crisis.
January 1, 1998... Few real-life crime stories present a more coherent narrative than the shooting by Bernhard Goetz of four black teenagers on a New York City subway train. It has almost all that a good novel requires: a compelling setting, sharp contrasts of...

"Passport, please": legal, literary, and critical fictions of identity.
January 1, 1998... I. THE UNIMAGINABLE MRS. SHIPLEY (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country including his own, and to return to his country. United...

"More deadly than the male": classifying female witnesses in trial advocacy handbooks.
January 1, 1998... "You will always approach [the female witness] as if she were a wild animal ready to tear you if she could get near enough." Richard Harris 1879. "A woman witness is off times death to the cross-examiner." Asher Cornelius 1929. "If ever...

Posner on legal texts: law, literature, (economics), and "welcome harassment."
January 1, 1998... The only exceptionable entry in this catalog is the question about unwelcomeness. "Welcome sexual harassment" is an oxymoron. Chief Judge Posner, for the majority in Carr v. Allison Gas Turbine Division The tinners' conduct, to the extent it...

Yes, Virginia, there is an answer. (analysis of Clarence Thomas' hearings on the race laws)
January 1, 1998... Nobody in this section of the country. believes the old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern white men are not careful they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be...

Narrative pragmatics and the genius of the law in Lyotard's Just Gaming. (literature's moment of law)
January 1, 1998... In his "Defence of Poetry" Percy Bysshe Shelley famously put forward the notion that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world," and though few would interpret this claim to mean that a work of literature can inaugurate a new law in...

A language game approach to narrative analysis of sexual harassment law in 'Meritor v. Vinson.'
January 1, 1998... This paper's purpose is to apply narrative analysis to the law to construct a reading that accounts for the different voices that speak, both in terms of the themes they give voice to (possess) and those they close off (interdict). Using a...

On reading law as literature.
January 1, 1998... In literature, we deal habitually with fictions. We re-imagine them with students in isolated classrooms and, more solipsistically still, through essays for journals read, if at all, only by other literary critics. Human beings always have a...

Ethical natural law and interdisciplinary studies.
January 1, 1998... Early in her provocative, wide-ranging essay-review, "Interdisciplinarity, Law, Language, and Literature" (204-16), Linda Myrsiades observes that interdisciplinarity "is less like bridge-building than it is like restructuring knowledge, insofar...

Literature's law.
January 1, 1998... One of the remarkable outcomes of the growth in literary theory in recent scholarship has been the productive crossing of the disciplines of law and literature. For the most part, however, this crossing has been articulated mainly in one...

Observing the emperor's nakedness: law and literature studies in the law school context.
January 1, 1998... In the almost twenty-five years since my graduation from law school, legal education's modes of instruction and substantive content have changed dramatically. Almost completely extinct are the Socratic bullies who used to leave students shaking...

What is writing about?
January 1, 1998... There are at least two views of writing theory and pedagogy predominant in the middle of the 1990s. The first is one I heard several times during the 1996 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Milwaukee, from both colleagues and...

Plain and Ordinary Things: Reading Women in the Writing Classroom.
January 1, 1998... There are at least two views of writing theory and pedagogy predominant in the middle of the 1990s. The first is one I heard several times during the 1996 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Milwaukee, from both colleagues and...

Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy.
January 1, 1998... There are at least two views of writing theory and pedagogy predominant in the middle of the 1990s. The first is one I heard several times during the 1996 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Milwaukee, from both colleagues and...

A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing.
January 1, 1998... There are at least two views of writing theory and pedagogy predominant in the middle of the 1990s. The first is one I heard several times during the 1996 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Milwaukee, from both colleagues and...

The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880.
January 1, 1998... There are at least two views of writing theory and pedagogy predominant in the middle of the 1990s. The first is one I heard several times during the 1996 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Milwaukee, from both colleagues and...

Two faces of Emerson: a review of recent books.
January 1, 1998... When Lawrence Buell surveyed "The Emerson Industry in the 1980s," he began by reflecting on the state of Emerson studies when he came to the field in the 1960s. Buell probably took this approach as a means of sharpening the contrast between the...

Emerson's Antislavery Writings.
January 1, 1998... When Lawrence Buell surveyed "The Emerson Industry in the 1980s," he began by reflecting on the state of Emerson studies when he came to the field in the 1960s. Buell probably took this approach as a means of sharpening the contrast between the...

Emerson and Self-Reliance.
January 1, 1998... When Lawrence Buell surveyed "The Emerson Industry in the 1980s," he began by reflecting on the state of Emerson studies when he came to the field in the 1960s. Buell probably took this approach as a means of sharpening the contrast between the...

Emerson and Power: Creative Antagonisms in the Nineteenth Century.
January 1, 1998... When Lawrence Buell surveyed "The Emerson Industry in the 1980s," he began by reflecting on the state of Emerson studies when he came to the field in the 1960s. Buell probably took this approach as a means of sharpening the contrast between the...

Emerson: The Mind on Fire.
January 1, 1998... When Lawrence Buell surveyed "The Emerson Industry in the 1980s," he began by reflecting on the state of Emerson studies when he came to the field in the 1960s. Buell probably took this approach as a means of sharpening the contrast between the...

Making ends meet: economizing on modern writing.
January 1, 1998... One of the issues which Lyn Pykett takes up early in Engendering Fictions: The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century is that of periodization. She seeks to join in with other "recent interrogations . . . of the validity of periodizing a...

Engendering Fictions.
January 1, 1998... One of the issues which Lyn Pykett takes up early in Engendering Fictions: The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century is that of periodization. She seeks to join in with other "recent interrogations . . . of the validity of periodizing a...

Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and Its Background, 1960 to 1990.
January 1, 1998... One of the issues which Lyn Pykett takes up early in Engendering Fictions: The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century is that of periodization. She seeks to join in with other "recent interrogations . . . of the validity of periodizing a...

The marketing of queer theory. (homosexuality)
January 1, 1998... It would appear that Marjorie Garber has a lot to answer for. Having produced two highly visible books (on cross-dressing and bisexuality) that combine contemporary literary theory with accessible and highly readable analyses of popular culture,...

Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music.
January 1, 1998... It would appear that Marjorie Garber has a lot to answer for. Having produced two highly visible books (on cross-dressing and bisexuality) that combine contemporary literary theory with accessible and highly readable analyses of popular culture,...

Lesbian Erotics.
January 1, 1998... It would appear that Marjorie Garber has a lot to answer for. Having produced two highly visible books (on cross-dressing and bisexuality) that combine contemporary literary theory with accessible and highly readable analyses of popular culture,...

Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture.
January 1, 1998... It would appear that Marjorie Garber has a lot to answer for. Having produced two highly visible books (on cross-dressing and bisexuality) that combine contemporary literary theory with accessible and highly readable analyses of popular culture,...

Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life.
January 1, 1998... To learn how to regard others as fully human, to identify sympathetically with others the better to promote a vision of social justice as complex and democratic, legal thinkers, particularly judges, must, argues Martha Nussbaum in Poetic Justice:...