Practicing Imagination. Bleak House by Charles Dickens within legal education
Journal Title: Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem - Year 2014, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The paper explores the relation between law and literature. In the first part, based on “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens, the shortcomings of the perspective “law and literature” are indicated. The author not only criticizes the idea of treating a writer as if he were a legal historian, but she also calls into question a broader vision of literature as a mirror of social reality, legal reality included. In the second part of the paper, still in reference to “Bleak House” (Court of Chancery, lawyers, philanthropy), a different conception of fiction within legal education is developed. Literary artistry (the use of metaphors, personifications, caricatures) and not its similarity with reality, is seen as a valuable instrument of cultivation moral imagination and empathy of the lawyers.
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Agnieszka Czarnecka
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