CRC 1385: Law and Literature - C01: Rhetoric. Law and Reasoning in Law and Literature

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Description

For centuries, rhetoric was the central educational institution in Western cultural history. It served students of both law and literature likewise and crucially formed patterns of thought in both these disciplines, as this project intends to show. Rhetoric reflects on language as practice and institution. The project will examine the disciplinary discourses of legal and literary studies from a critical rhetorical perspective. The project postulates, among other things, that rhetoric does not imperil the rationality of the law but in fact provides the foundational basis for it.