TY - BOOK ID - 74172818 TI - Law and literature PY - 2016 SN - 9789004304345 9004304355 9789004304352 9004304347 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, DB - UniCat KW - Law and literature. KW - Law in literature. KW - Intellectual property in literature. KW - Censorship. KW - Book censorship KW - Books KW - Censorship KW - Literature KW - Literature and morals KW - Anticensorship activists KW - Challenged books KW - Expurgated books KW - Intellectual freedom KW - Prohibited books KW - Literature and law KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74172818 AB - María José Falcón y Tella invites us on a fascinating journey through the world of law and literature, travelling through the different eras and exploring eternal and as such current issues such as justice, power, resistance, vengeance, rights, and duties. This is an unending conversation, which brings us back to Sophocles and Dickens, Cervantes and Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Melville, among many others. There are many ways to approach the concept of “Law and Literature”. In the classical manner, the author distinguishes three paths: the Law of Literature, involving a technical approach to the literary theme; Law as Literature, a hermeneutical and rhetorical approach to examining legal texts; and finally, Law in Literature, which is undoubtedly the most fertile and documented perspective (the fundamental part of the work focusses on this direction). This timely volume offers an introduction to this enormous field of study, which was born in the United States over a century ago and is currently taking root in the European continent. ER -