Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and Culture [Paperback]

Kostas Myrsiades (Author), Linda Myrsiades (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 11, 2000 | ISBN-10: 082044541X | ISBN-13: 978-0820445410

This collection offers fresh and challenging essays by scholars in law, English and comparative literature, social and political thought, and communication studies. It explores unique angles of vision that allow us to read legal opinions as well as criminal cases, abortion clinic violence, trial testimony (victim impact statements), legal authority, and legal fictions of personal and national identity (passports). The literature it analyzes ranges from Shakespeare's Richard II and The Merchant of Venice to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Anthony Trollope's Orley Farm, and Virginia Wolfe's Mrs. Dalloway. Providing a breadth of material, this collection breaks through disciplinary boundaries as new voices challenge old paradigms, pushing marginalized questions into the center of the literature and law enterprise.

Product Details

• Paperback: 309 pages
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (January 11, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082044541X
• ISBN-13: 978-0820445410
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,063,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Kostas Myrsiades, professor of Comparative Literature and English at West Chester University, is a distinguished translator and neohellenist and the first American to receive the Gold Medallion (1995) for his translations from the Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature given annually by the Greek government to a scholar from any country. His work in Greek letters is not only demonstrated in his 19 published books and numerous articles on modern and ancient Greek literature but also in the many invited lectures he has delivered for such groups as the Jane Globus Seminar Series Lecture at Baruch College, the Elytis Chair Lecture Series of Poetry and Neohellenic Studies at Rutgers, and the Embassy of Greece/National Library of Canada Lecture at Ottawa. He is the editor of College Literature, a quarterly of literary criticism, theory, and pedagogy, which since 1990 has been the recipient of seven awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals including the Phoenix Award for distinguished editorial achievement. Professor Myrsiades also co-edits the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, one of the leading journals in neohellenic studies.