ENG 260 LITERATURE AND THE LAW
This course provides an interdisciplinary study of the complicated relationship between the operating law and representations and evaluations of the legal process and ideas of justice in literature and literary theory. Selected readings from Antiquity through the contemporary era will probe questions of what is just, compare literature about justice coming from Western and non-Western perspectives, consider critiques of literature from lawyers and judges, explore utopian and dystopian visions of the law, and examine the relationship between interpretations of literary and legal texts.
Course Types
Literature; Expression
Offered
Offered fall or spring of alternate years.