Law-Literature

European Network for Law and Literature

The European Network for Law and Literature Scholarship has been founded as a vehicle for increasing communication and cooperation between individuals working on related topics within Europe. Founded by a judge and law professor working in the Netherlands and a literary scholar in Germany, this network aims to embrace the variety of disciplines and languages its participants work in as potential sources of scholarly richness and innovation. It is our belief that work on Law and Literature in Europe can develop a profile that more clearly reflects and articulates the cultural identities and legal backgrounds of its participants.

Draaisma over literatuur

De hinderlijke weerstand van feiten - door Douwe Draaisma

Lezing over de rol van literatuur...

"Wat bewonderd moet worden in Ian McEwan, niet alleen in zijn lezing vanmiddag, maar ook op andere plaatsen in zijn werk, is dat hij de verhouding tussen die twee werelden van feit en fictie onderzoekt op andere mogelijkheden dan die van een wederzijdse uitsluiting".

Bruner Burke

Kenneth Burke on narratives (and Burke):

Well-formed stories, [Kenneth] Burke proposed, are composed of a pentad of an Actor, an Action, a Goal, a Scene, and an Instrument?plus Trouble. Trouble consists of an imbalance between any of the five elements of the pentad: an Action toward a Goal is inappropriate in a particular Scene . . . an Actor does not fit the Scene . . . or there is a dual Scene . . . or a confusion of Goals. - /Jerome Bruner/ p. 50

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Real Life

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Is ‘The Wire’ Our Best Ethnographic Text on the U.S. Today?

Who needs real life? My boyfriend and I have been working our way through the first four seasons of the U.S. television show The Wire, and I have concluded that it may be the best ethnography we have of contemporary American society. Who needs ‘real life’ when fiction, a TV show no less, does a better job of representing US culture(s) than many social science texts?

Conference GURT

GURT2008 | Telling Stories

Telling Stories:
Building bridges among Language, Narrative, Identity, Interaction, Society and Culture.

Narratives have been studied in many different disciplines: linguistics, literary theory, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, folklore, anthropology, sociology and history.

The primary focus of GURT 2008 is the linguistic study of narrative, especially as it has developed within discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

As our theme suggests, however, studying the language of narrative can take us far afield to other concerns: the construction of self and identity; the differences among spoken, written and computer-mediated discourse; the role that small and big (e.g. life) stories play in everyday social interactions; the contribution of narrative to social status, roles and meanings within institutional settings as varied as therapeutic and medical encounters, education, politics, media, marketing and public relations.

Thus GURT 2008 will be a forum for building interconnections among language, narrative and social life.

Imaginative Literature & Social Change

I M A G I N A T I V E
LITERATURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Imaginative writing can be both literary and political simultaneously, and inevitably is, to varying degrees. In its own way, fiction can accomplish something similar to what Noam Chomsky and many other progressive workers try to accomplish through nonfiction: the creation of works that clarify and better the world socially, politically, culturally....

Fiction can be used to address what Chomsky calls "Orwell's Problem": How is it that oppressive ideological systems are able to "instill beliefs that are firmly held and widely accepted although they are completely without foundation and often plainly at variance with the obvious facts about the world around us?" In other words, how is it that people are persuaded to act willingly and willfully against their own best interests and against values - regarding themselves and others - they otherwise hold dear? Fiction can debunk harmful propaganda and taboos; it can help energize, motivate, inspire and all the while maintain a vital literary quality by staying focused in part on fiction's core strengths, the plumbing of the depths of the human condition through character -- psychology, personality, motivation, mindset..

Literature and Social Studies

Keokuk's Daily Gate City Online > News

KHS adds new courses, aligns social studies with literature
By Diane Vance/Gate City Staff Writer

Published: Monday, February 25, 2008 2:44 PM CST
Keokuk High School will offer some new courses next year, is dropping a few others, and aligning literature and social studies classes to correspond better with the subject matter taught.
KHS Principal Dave Keane outlined some of the changes to the school board at the last meeting on Feb. 11.
“Next year, social studies and literature will be blocked as co-requisites,” he said.

Freshmen will take civics and Literature Composition I which covers concepts such as tolerance and age appropriate stories such as Romeo and Juliet; sophomores will study American history and Literature/Composition II; students will have world literature the same year as world geography.
“We ask students to do research projects in both literature class and social studies,” Keane said. “Sometimes, students do two mediocre projects. Now, we'll require one research project spanning the two classes and graded by both teachers. We will demand a higher level of performance.”
KHS will drop special ed classes, MDT, MDE, BD, LD and the Multi-Categorical Resource Program.