The Literary Exception and the Rule of Law by Johan Van Der Walt - 9780367640316

Taylor & Francis

Addressing the influential analysis of law and literature, this book offers a new perspective on their relationship. The law and literature movement that has gained global prominence in the course of last decades of the twentieth and the first decades of the twenty-first centuries has provided the research and teaching of law with a considerable body of new and valuable knowledge and understanding. Most of the knowledge and insights generated by the movement concern either a thematic overlap between legal and literary discourses \u2013 suggesting they deal with the same moral concerns \u2013 or a rhetorical, semiotic or general linguistic comparability or \u2018sameness\u2019 between them \u2013 imputing to both the same or very similar narrative structures. The Literary Exception and the Rule of Law recognises the wealth of knowledge generated by this approach to the relationship between law and literature, and acknowledges its debt to this genre of scholarship. It nevertheless also.