Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-century LiteratureUniversity of Akron Press, 2007 - 294 páginas For the past twenty years, the law and literature movement has been gaining ground. More recently, a feminist perspective has enriched the field. With Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature, Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson adds a compelling voice to the discussion. Courting Failure critically explores the representation of women, fictional and historical, in conflict with the law. Macpherson focuses on the judicial system and the staging of women's guilt, examining both the female suspect and the female victim in a wide variety of media, including novels like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, theatrical plays, movies such as I Want to Live! and Legally Blonde, and the television series Ally McBeal. In these texts and others, canonical or popular, Macpherson exposes the court as an arena in which women often fail, or succeed only by subverting the system. Combining feminist literary theory with the discourse of the law and literature movement, Courting Failure is a highly readable and analytically rigorous study of justice and gender on the page and screen. |
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... provides us with several images of Grace in a mir- ror , the most important of which has Grace looking in a mirror and contemplating her own multiple descriptions : I think of all the things that have been written about me - that I am ...
... provides us with several images of Grace in a mir- ror , the most important of which has Grace looking in a mirror and contemplating her own multiple descriptions : I think of all the things that have been written about me - that I am ...
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... provides monosyllabic an- swers to the Liberty Questions and departs for New York . In Atwood's version , Grace coincidentally ends up marrying a childhood friend , the boy who ironically helped convict her , and he seeks her penance in ...
... provides monosyllabic an- swers to the Liberty Questions and departs for New York . In Atwood's version , Grace coincidentally ends up marrying a childhood friend , the boy who ironically helped convict her , and he seeks her penance in ...
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... provides a fruitful comparison and an important reminder of the staging or per- formance of guilt or innocence , as well as the multiple interpreta- tions available to anyone who sits in judgment , aspects that are even further ...
... provides a fruitful comparison and an important reminder of the staging or per- formance of guilt or innocence , as well as the multiple interpreta- tions available to anyone who sits in judgment , aspects that are even further ...
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