CRITICISM

Cheng, Sinkwan. “Crossing Desire and Drive in A Passage to India: The Subversion of the British Colonial Law in the ‘Twilight Zone of Double Vision.’” Literature and Psychology 47, no. 3 (2001): 1-24.

Argues that the neutral space of the Marabar caves creates an environment in which the relationship between colonizer and colonized becomes first destabilized, then reversed in Forster's novel.

Dimock, Wai Chee. Residues of Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996, 278 p.

Dimock explores the interaction between literature and the law, positing that literature can provide a needed corrective to the abstractness of the law.

Hoffheimer, Michael H. “Varieties of Law and Literature.” CLIO 27, no. 3 (spring 1998): 415-27.

Reviews two recent books dealing with literature and law and how the two disciplines together can work toward justice.

Hogan, Patrick Colm. “On Reading Law as Literature.” College Literature 25 (winter 1998): 231-36.

Identifies and discusses some problems inherent in treating the law as literature.

Kinkley, Jeffrey C. Chinese Justice, the Fiction. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000, 497 p.

Focuses on the intersection between law and literature in Chinese society and the revival of interest in that intersection in modern Chinese society.

Koffler, Judith. “Three Looking Glasses for Law and Literature.” Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 10, no. 1 (summer 1998): 69-88.

Reviews three recent works in the field of law and literature in the context of the development of the movement since the 1970s.

Nussbaum, Martha C. Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995, 143 p.

Argues for the possibility of a positive, humanitarian influence of literature on the law.

Papke, David Ray. “Observing the Emperor's Nakedness: Law and Literature Studies in the Law School Context.” College Literature 25 (winter 1998): 246-47.

Discusses the study of law in law schools, emphasizing that the real value of literary study for law students is that it exposes the limitations and arbitrariness of the law.

Pesic, Peter. “Before the Law: Einstein and Kafka.” Literature and Theology: An International Journal of Theory, Criticism, and Culture 8, no. 2 (June 1994): 174-92.

Pesic compares the journeys and reactions of Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka on their somewhat parallel paths of searching for a personal relationship with Jewish Law.

Potter, Rachel. “Waiting at the Entrance to the Law: Modernism, Gender, and Democracy.” Textual Practice 14, no. 2 (summer 2000): 253-63.

Potter comments on the individual's attitude toward the law as depicted in Kafka's The Trial and in the writings of the avant-garde poet Mina Loy.

West, Robin. Narrative, Authority, and Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993, 439 p.

Presents a critique of current law and literature study, stressing that the two disciplines together should be offering a more radical challenge to existing institutions.

White, James Boyd. The Legal Imagination. Boston: Little Brown, 1973, 986 p.

One of the seminal works in the field of literature and law study. Discusses a rationale for the two-discipline approach and offers numerous application examples.