Russia's Legal Fictions

by Harriet Murav

Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia. The conflict between the Russian writer and the law is a well-known feature of Russian literary life in the past two centuries. With one exception, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472108794
• ISBN13: 9780472108794
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"