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Announcing the publication of Teaching Law and Literature, edited by Austin Sarat, Catherine O. Frank and Matthew Anderson. This volume provides a resource for teachers interested in learning about the field of law and literature and shows how to bring its insights to bear in their classrooms, both in the liberal arts and in law schools. Essays in the first section, “Theory and History of the Movement,” provide a retrospective of the field and look forward to new developments. The second section, “Model Courses,” offers readers an array of possibilities for structuring courses that integrate legal issues with the study of literature, from The Canterbury Tales to current prison literature. In “Texts,” the third section, guidance is provided for teaching not only written documents (novels, plays, trial reports) but also cultural objects: digital media, Native American ceremonies, documentary theater, hip-hop. The volume’s contributors investigate what constitutes law and literature and how each informs the other. Contributors: Philip Auslander, Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Mary Flowers Braswell, Peter Brooks, Kieran Dolin, Florence Dore, Alex Feerst, David H. Fisher, Nan Goodman, Chaya Halberstam, Susan Sage Heinzelman, Peter C. Herman, Diane Hoeveler, Harold Joseph, Valerie Karno, Lenora Ledwon, Nancy S. Marder, Bridget M. Marshall, Alyce Miller, D. Quentin Miller, Harriet Murav, Victoria Myers, Linda Myrsiades, Jacqueline O’Connor, Julie Stone Peters, Greg Pingree, Ravit Reichman, Lisa Rodensky, Hilary Schor, Richard Schur, Caleb Smith, Cristine Soliz, Simon Stern, Nomi Stolzenberg, Brook Thomas, Zoe Trodd, Elliot Visconsi, Patricia D. Watkins, Richard H. Weisberg, Robert Weisberg, Robin West, James Boyd White, Theodore Ziolkowski |
