4 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 coursebook (22 cm.)
ISBNs
1598031430, 9781598031430
OCLC
ocm67295074
Credits
Taught by: Susan Sage Heinzelman, University of Texas at Austin
Course consists of 24 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 2 DVDs and each DVD consists of 6 lectures.
Accompanying guides include biographical information, lecture notes and outlines, timelines, glossaries, and bibliographical references.
Course no. 2336.
Region 1.
Part 1. lecture 1. Literature as law, literature of law -- lecture 2. The Old Testament as law and literature -- lecture 3. Revenge and justic in Aeschylus's Oresteia -- lecture 4. Community in Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus -- lecture 5. Ritual order in mystery and morality plays -- leture 6. Chaucer's lawyers and priests -- lecture 7. Inns of Court, Royal Courts, and the Stage -- lecture 8. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596-97) -- lecture 9. Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (1603-04) -- lecture 10. Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (1609-11) -- lecture 11. An epic trial--Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) -- lecture 12. Moll Flanders (1722) ; Beggar's Opera (1727) --
Part 2. lecture 13. Trial tales of Parricide Mary Blandy (1752) -- lecture 14. Property and self--Edgeworth, Burney, Austen -- lecture 15. Law as fog--Dicekns's Bleak House (1852-53) -- lecture 16. Puritans anew--The Scarlet Letter (1850) -- lecture 17. Slavery and Huckleberry Finn (1885) -- lecture 18. Victorian limits--Tess and Jude the Obscure -- lecture 19. Susan Glaspell's "Jury of Her Peers" (1917) -- lecture 20. Kafka and 20th century anxiety about law -- lecture 21. Lolita (1958) and in the Art of Confessing -- lecture 22. "Witnessing" slavery in Beloved (1987) -- lecture 23. Maternal infanticide--myth and judgement -- lecture 24. Literature and law--past, present, future