Great literature can be the means of understanding as well as creating our
world.by teaching and reinforcing society's laws, articulating its values,
and enforcing the social contracts that unite us as a culture. What if
literature itself generated our ideas and feelings about justice, marriage
and family, property, authority, race, or gender? What if it enflamed our
determination to pursue justice.or, conversely, undermined our ability to
detect injustice?

What if law in all its variations.from religious commandments to oral
tradition to codified statute.embraced its own narrative assumptions to
the point of absorbing purely literary conventions as a means of more
forcefully arguing its points in the legal arena?

And what if this dynamic relationship between written and unwritten laws
and literature is constantly evolving? How do law and literature influence
or reflect one other? And what lessons might we draw from their symbiotic
relationship?

Representing Justice: Stories of Law and Literature is a provocative
exploration of just such questions.an examination of the rhetorical and
philosophical connections that link these two disciplines.

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