Friday, January 11, 2008

Legal Action

I'm taking a course on Law & Literature this semester. The idea is to think outside the external, tangible and, fundamentally, legal, to try to think about the intrinsic, the intangible, the moral. To see how artists perceive our career choice, our system, but most of all, concepts of justice - both descriptively and normatively. It should be interesting. At least, our prof wants to make sure that, at a cocktail party, we're "interesting."

Mostly, I'm just very excited about what we get to read; the book list, which I'm going to purchase this morning (those that I don't already own, obviously):
  • Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Franz Kafka - The Trial
  • Albert Camus - The Stranger
  • Herman Melville - Bartleby and Billy Budd, Sailor
  • Sophocles, Oedipus The King
  • Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
  • Ei Doctorow - The book of Daniel
  • Charles Dickens - Bleak House
We also have to watch Sidney Lumet's "The Verdict". Paul Newman. Shame.

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