American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199331375 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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""Law and Literature" Movement Volume on Manliness" according to H. Lee Cheek, Jr., Ph.D.. This volume is the third in a series of collections from scholars associated with the “law and literature” movement. A broad group of academics are included as contributors, especially judges and literature and law professors. The goal of the series and this book is to examine how literature interprets “norms and st
In the face of a large body of work studying judicial conduct as a function of rigid commitment to ideology,American Guy shows a side of the judiciary that is imaginatively engaged, aware of cultural trends, and reflective about the wider world and the role of the of law in it.. The collection opens with a set of papers investigating "American Guys" -- the heroic nonconformists and rugged individualists that populate much of American fiction. These contributions are particularly significant, not only as features unique to the field, but also for the light they throw on the federal bench. LaCroix and Martha Nussbaum, aims at reinvigorating the law-and-literature movement through original, cross-disciplinary insights. These essays take up counter-traditions of masculinity ranging from gay male culture to Philip Roth's portrait of the Jewish lawyer. A second set of papers examines "Outsiders" -- men on the periphery of the American Guys who proclaim a different way of being male. Diverse essays examine the manly men of Hemingway, Dreiser, and others, in their relation to the law, while also highlighting the underlying tensions that complicate this version of masculinity. Amer
Students of American literature would do well to consult this collection. Teh contributors (mostly jurists or professors of law, with the University of Chicago's law school well represented) are erudite readers and writers, and while one might not agree with their respective interpretations - or their handling of the material - together they offer a fresh perpective on a numbe rof American classics. John Vukmirovich, The Times Literary Supplement a fresh perspective John Vukmirovich, Times Literary Supplement
Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Law School and Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago.. Martha C. Saul Levmore is Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School