Un-Disciplining Literature

Contents: Linda Myrsiades: Introduction - Jane B. Baron: Storytelling and Legal Legitimacy - Michael Brooks: Stories and Verdicts: Bernard Goetz and New York in Crisis - Anne E. Shaw/Alane C. Spinney: Rhetoric, Repetition, and Violence: A Case Study of Clinic Conflict in Milwaukee -Jennifer K. Wood: Refined Raw: The Symbolic Violence of Victim's Rights Reforms - Frances J. Ranney: Posner on Legal Texts: Law, Literature (Economics), and "Welcome Harassment" - Lesley Higgins/Marie-Christine Leps: "Passport Please": Legal, Literary, and Critical Fictions of Identity - Theron Britt: Narrative Pragmatics and the Genius of the Law in Lyotard's Just Gaming - Richard H. Weisberg: Antonio's Legalistic Cruelty: Interdisciplinarity and The Merchant of Venice - Dennis R. Klinck: Shakespeare's Richard II as Landlord and Wasting Tenant - Richard Clarke Sterne: The Trial in A Passage to India : "Justice" Under Colonial Conditions - Linda Myrsiades: Law, Medicine, and the Sex Slave in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale - Paula Jean Reiter: Husbands, Wives, and Lawyers: Gender Roles and Professional Representations in Trollope and the Adelaide Bartlett Case - Patrick Colm Hogan: Fictive Tales, Real Lives: Problems With Reading Law as Literature.

The Editors: Kostas Myrsiades is Professor of Comparative Literature at West Chester University and Editor of College Literature. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University. In addition to numerous articles on, and translations from, modern Greek literature and culture, he is the author/editor/translator of 15 books on modern Greek poetry and folklore and the theory of literature.
Linda Myrsiades is Associate Professor of English at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, and Associate Editor of College Literature. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Drama from Indiana University. She has written extensively on modern Greek folklore and business writing and is the author/editor of seven books on literature and Greek folk drama.