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Harriet Murav - Russia's Legal Fictions (Law, Meaning, and Violence) - 9780472108794 - V9780472108794
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Russia's Legal Fictions (Law, Meaning, and Violence)

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Description for Russia's Legal Fictions (Law, Meaning, and Violence) Hardcover. Explores the relationship between law, literature, and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia Series: Law, Meaning & Violence. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.

Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia.
The conflict between the Russian writer and the law is a well-known feature of Russian literary life in the past two centuries. With one exception, the authors discussed in this book--Sukhovo-Kobylin, Akhsharumov, Suvorin, and Dostoevsky in the nineteenth century and Solzhenitsyn and Siniavskii in the twentieth--were all put on trial. In Russia's Legal Fictions, Harriet ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Law, Meaning & Violence
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472108794
SKU
V9780472108794
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Ref
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About Harriet Murav
Harriet Murav is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Davis.

Reviews for Russia's Legal Fictions (Law, Meaning, and Violence)
". . . this informed study of long-ignored areas of Russian culture will appeal to specialists in Russian literature and in the relationship between the humanities and law." —Choice
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"Murav's brilliant and complex study fills a gap in connecting Russian law and literature. . . . This is an immensely learned work, both in substance and ... Read more

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