Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry, and Narrative

by Harold Scheub

Book Overview

What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299182142
• ISBN13: 9780299182144
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"