{"product_id":"law-and-literature-book-by-richard-a-posner","title":"Law and Literature Book by  Richard A. Posner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHailed in its first edition as an \"outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Richard A. Posner's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLaw and Literature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has handily lived up to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e prediction that the book would \"remain essential reading for many years to come.\" This new edition, extensively revised and enlarged, continues to emphasize the essential differences between law and literature, which are rooted in the different social functions of legal and literary texts. But it also explores areas of mutual illumination and expands its range to include new topics such as popular fiction about law, literary education for lawyers, the legal narrative movement, and judicial biography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary works from classics by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Melville, Kafka, and Camus to contemporary fiction by William Gaddis, Tom Wolfe, and John Grisham come under Posner's scrutiny, as do recent attempts to apply the techniques of literary analysis to statutes, judicial opinions, and the Constitution. In a section entirely new in this edition, Posner discusses the increasing efforts of legal scholars to enrich their scholarship by borrowing the methods and insights of literature--even by insisting that legal education is incomplete without the ethical insights afforded by an immersion in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThoroughly rewritten and updated, free of legal and literary jargon, and informed by Posner's extensive erudition and legal experience, this book remains the most clear, acute, and comprehensive account of the intersection of law and literature--\"a wonderfully original and instructive study of what literature has to teach us about the law, the methods of legal argument, and the interpretation of statutes and the Constitution\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Lovers BD","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55664213033251,"sku":null,"price":440.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55664213066019,"sku":null,"price":570.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":55664213098787,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/5872\/2083\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_a806ccfd-2c58-425e-b89d-434fd5b224ca.webp?v=1790528905","url":"https:\/\/www.bookloversbd.shop\/products\/law-and-literature-book-by-richard-a-posner","provider":"Book Lovers BD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}