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Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, the Jury Trial, and the Law
Gary Rosenshield
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Description for Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, the Jury Trial, and the Law
Hardcover. Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, in both his journalism and fiction. He shows how Dostoevsky explicitly dealt with the same problems that the law-and-literature movement has from the 1980s to present. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 621.
Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, both in his journalism and his fiction, contextualizing his portrayal of trials and trial participants (lawyers, jurors, defendants, judges) in the political, social, and ideological milieu of his time. Rosenshield presents Dostoevsky's critique in terms of the main notions of the critical legal studies movement in the United States, showing how, more than one hundred and twenty years ago, Dostoevsky explicitly dealt with the same problems that the law-and-literature movement has been ... Read more
Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, both in his journalism and his fiction, contextualizing his portrayal of trials and trial participants (lawyers, jurors, defendants, judges) in the political, social, and ideological milieu of his time. Rosenshield presents Dostoevsky's critique in terms of the main notions of the critical legal studies movement in the United States, showing how, more than one hundred and twenty years ago, Dostoevsky explicitly dealt with the same problems that the law-and-literature movement has been ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299209308
SKU
V9780299209308
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About Gary Rosenshield
Gary Rosenshield is professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Crime and Punishment: The Techniques of the Omniscient Author and Pushkin and the Genres of Madness, published by the University Of Wisconsin Press.
Reviews for Western Law, Russian Justice: Dostoevsky, the Jury Trial, and the Law
This is the best Western study of Dostoevsky that I am aware of. Gary Rosenshield's fascinating study of Dostoevsky, the political journalist and novelist, asks questions that are as topical today as they were in the nineteenth century. - Victor Terras