Troubling Confessions

Troubling Confessions
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 238
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0226075850
ISBN-13 : 9780226075853
Rating : 4/5 (853 Downloads)
DOWNLOAD EBOOK
Book Synopsis Troubling Confessions by : Peter Brooks

Download or read book Troubling Confessions written by Peter Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-05-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature has often understood the problematic nature of confession better than the law, as Brooks demonstrates in perceptive readings of legal cases set against works by Roussean, Dostoevsky, Joyce, and Camus, among others."--BOOK JACKET.


Troubling Confessions Related Books

Troubling Confessions
Language: en
Pages: 217

Troubling Confessions

Authors: Peter Brooks
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Troubling Confessions, Peter Brooks juxtaposes law and literature to explore the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them a
Troubling Confessions
Language: en
Pages: 238

Troubling Confessions

Authors: Peter Brooks
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-05-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Literature has often understood the problematic nature of confession better than the law, as Brooks demonstrates in perceptive readings of legal cases set again
Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas
Language: en
Pages: 302

Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas

Authors: Nicole N. Aljoe
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-14 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays suggests the
Confessions
Language: en
Pages: 223

Confessions

Authors: Thomas Docherty
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-24 - Publisher: A&C Black

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book explores what is
Law and the Unconscious
Language: en
Pages: 304

Law and the Unconscious

Authors: Anne C. Dailey
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-28 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How do we bring the law into line with people’s psychological experience? How can psychoanalysis help us understand irrational actions and bad choices? Our le