Cannons and Codes

Law, Literature, and America's Wars

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvAlison L. LaCroix,Jonathan S. Masur,Martha C. Nussbaum,Laura Weinrib,University of Chicago) LaCroix, Alison L. (Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and Associate Member of the Department of History, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and Associate Member of the Department of History,University of Chicago Law School) Masur, Jonathan S. (John P. Wilson Professor of Law, John P. Wilson Professor of Law,University of Chicago) Nussbaum, Martha C. (Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and the Philosophy Department, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, Law School and the Philosophy Department,Harvard Law School) Weinrib, Laura (Professor of Law, Professor of Law,Alison L LaCroix,Jonathan S Masur,Martha C Nussbaum

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It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata. And yet, though a profoundly human subject, war often appears to be by definition outside the realm of structures such as law and literature. When we speak of war, we often understand it as incapable of being rendered into rules or words. Lawyers struggle to fit the horrors of the battlefield, the torture chamber, or the makeshift hospital filled with wounded and dying civilians into the framework of legible rules and shared understandings that law assumes and demands. In the West's centuries-long effort to construct a formal law of war, the imperative has been to acknowledge the inhumanity of war while resisting the conclusion that it need therefore be without law. Writers, in contrast, seek to find the human within war--an individual story, perhaps even a moment of comprehension. Law and literature might in this way be said to share imperialist tendencies where war is concerned: toward extending their dominion to contain what might be uncontainable.Law, literature, and war are thus all profoundly connected--and it is this connection this edited volume aims to explore, assembling essays by preeminent scholars to discuss the ways in which literary works can shed light on legal thinking about war, and how a deep understanding of law can lead to interpretive insights on literary works. Some of the contributions concern the lives of soldiers; others focus on civilians living in war zones who are caught up in the conflict; still others address themselves to the home front, far from the theatre of war. By collecting such diverse perspectives, the volume aims to illuminate how literature has reflected the totalizing nature of war and the ways in which it distorts law across domains.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-04
Mått236 x 163 x 30 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197509371

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Alison L. LaCroix is Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago.Jonathan S. Masur is the John P. Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at the University of ChicagoLaura Weinrib is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Laura Weinrib is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Introduction, Alison L. LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Laura WeinribChapter 1: Law, Literature, and War: A Plenary Panelm with Justice, Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Diane P. Wood, Paul Woodruff, and Martha C. NussbaumPART I: FORMING A NATION THROUGH WAR'S CRUCIBLEChapter 2: Law and War in the New World: The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, and The Pioneers, Douglas BairdChapter 3: New Light on the Trial of Billy Budd, Richard H. McAdams and Jacob I. CorréChapter 4: Two Humanitarianisms in Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," John Fabian WittChapter 5: Law and its Limits in Albion Tourgée's Bricks without Straw, Kate MasurPART II: THE TWO GREAT WARSChapter 6: Trenches, Cadences, and Faces: Social Connection and Emotional Expression in the Great War, Nancy ShermanChapter 7: Crucified by the War Machine: Britten's War Requiem and the Hope of Postwar Resurrection, Martha C. NussbaumChapter 8: Undivided Loyalty: The Problem of Allegiance in the Literature of War, Alison L. LaCroix and William A. BirdthistleChapter 9: Law and Legitimacy in A Farewell to Arms, Laura WeinribChapter 10: Lawmaking, Bilateral Rules, and a Debunking of Catch-22, Saul LevmoreChapter 11: Catch-22 and the Law of Large Organizations, Jonathan S. MasurPART III: AFTERWARDChapter 12: Sympathizing with Both Sides: Racism and American Intervention in Vietnam, Paul WoodruffChapter 13: Paul Beatty, the Rhetoric of War, and the Selling Out of Civil Rights, Elizabeth AnkerChapter 14: How War Makes (and Unmakes) the Democratic State: Reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West In A Populism Age, Aziz Z. HuqChapter 15: Black Radicalism, Autobiography, and Prisoners of War, Tommie Shelby

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