Contents
Issue 25.1 (Winter 1998)
25th Anniversary Edition: Law, Literature, and Interdisciplinarity
Essays
Linda Myrsiades ....................................................................................1
Introduction: Law, Literature, and Interdisciplinarity
Richard Weisberg ...............................................................................12
Antonio's Legalistic Cruelty: Interdisciplinarity and The Merchant of Venice
Dennis R. Klinck...................................................................................21
Shakespeare's Richard II as Landlord and Wasting Tenant
Shakespeare's Richard II as Landlord and Wasting Tenant
Joel Black ...........................................................................................35
Grisham's Demons
Paula J. Reiter.....................................................................................41
Husbands, Wives, and Lawyers: Gender Roles and Professional Representation in Trollope and the Adelaide Bartlett Case
Husbands, Wives, and Lawyers: Gender Roles and Professional Representation in Trollope and the Adelaide Bartlett Case
Storytelling in the Law
Jane B. Baron .......................................................................................................................................63
Storytelling and Legal Legitimacy
Michael Brooks .....................................................................................................................................77
Stories and Verdicts: Bernhard Goetz and New York in Crisis
Texts as Tools
Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps ..............................................................................................94
"Passport Please": Legal, Literary, and Critical Functions of Identity
Jill Tomasson Goodwin .......................................................................................................................139
"More Deadly Than the Male": Classifying Female Witnesses in Trial Adversary Handbooks
Francis R. Ranney ...............................................................................................................................163
Posner on Legal Texts: Law, Literature, (Economics), and "Welcome Harassment"
Language and Law
Houston A. Baker, Jr. ..........................................................................................................................184
Yes, Virginia, There Is An Answer
Theron Britt .........................................................................................................................................190
Narrative Pragmatics and the Genius of the Law in Lyotard's Just Gaming
Linda Myrsiades ..................................................................................................................................200
A Language Game Approach to Narrative Analysis of Sexual Harassment in Meritor v. Vinson
Dialoguing in the Law
Patrick Colm Hogan ............................................................................................................................231
On Reading Law and Literature
Richard Clark Sterne ...........................................................................................................................237
Ethical Natural Law and Interdisciplinary Studies
Theron Britt .........................................................................................................................................244
Literature's Law
David R. Papke ....................................................................................................................................246
Observing the Emperor's Nakedness: Law and Literature Studies in the Law School Context
Review Essays
Michael Mernard-Donals .....................................................................................................................249
What is Writing About?
[Reviews of Plain and Ordinary Things: Reading Women in the Writing Classroom, by Deborah Anne Dooley; Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy, ed. Karen Fitts and Alan W. France; A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing, by Paul H. Fry; The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880, by D. G. Myers]
T. Gregory Garvey ...............................................................................................................................261
Two Faces of Emerson: A Review of Recent Books
[Reviews of Emerson's Antislavery Writings, ed. Len Gougeon and Joel Myerson; Emerson and Self Reliance, by George Kateb; Emerson and Power: Creative Antagonism in the Nineteenth Century, by Michael Lopez; Emerson: The Mind on Fire, by Robert D. Richardson]
Andrew Harrington ..............................................................................................................................276
Making Ends Meet: Economizing on Modern Writing.
[Reviews of Engendering Fictions: The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century, by Lyn Pykett; Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and Its Background 1960 to 1990, by Patricia Waugh]
Dennis W. Allen ...................................................................................................................................282
Marketing of Queer Theory
[Reviews of Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Music, by John Gill; Lesbiam Erotics, ed. Karla Jay; Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture, ed. Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty]
Book Review
Finbarr McCarthy .................................................................................................................................290
Review of Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life, by Martha Nussbaum
Appendices
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................298
Announcements ..................................................................................................................................304
