1.
The Catcher in the Rye: A Psychoanalytic Perspective and Social Activism
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 11 Apr 2010
Working Paper Series
Patkai Christian College
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1,211
2.
The Definition of 'Emolument' in English Language and Legal Dictionaries, 1523-1806
Number of pages: 159
Posted: 01 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 13 Jul 2017
Working Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
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1,162
3.
Poetry and the Scope of Metaphor: Toward a Cognitive Theory of Literature
METAPHOR AND METONYMY AT THE CROSSROADS: A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE, Antonia Barcelona, ed., pp. 253-281, Mouton de Gruyter, 2000
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 24 Apr 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
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1,029
4.
Originality
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 115, p. 1988, 2002
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 25 May 2008
Last Revised: 30 Sep 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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955
5.
David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy, How to Be an Adult, and Other Mysteries of the Universe
Pittsburgh Tax Review, Vol. 12, 2015, Forthcoming, Queen's University Legal Research Paper No. 2015-011
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 17 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Queen's University - Faculty of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy, How to Be an Adult, and Other Mysteries of the Universe
Pittsburgh Tax Review, Vol. 12, 2015, Forthcoming, Queen's University Legal Research Paper No. 2015-011
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 17 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2015
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950
David Foster Wallace on Tax Policy, How to Be an Adult, and Other Mysteries of the Universe
Pittsburgh Tax Review, Vol. 12, No. p. 89, 2015
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 09 Sep 2015
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151
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950
6.
The Nat Turner Trials
91 North Carolina Law Review 1817-80 June 2013, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2281519
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 20 Jul 2013
Last Revised: 02 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Alabama - School of Law
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920
7.
Melville's Billy Budd and Security in Times of Crisis
Cardozo Law Review Vol. 26, No. 6, p. 2443, 2005, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 106, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 106
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 06 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 05 May 2008
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
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834
8.
'We Do Not Sow': The Economics and Politics of A Song of Ice and Fire
Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature, edited by Ed Younkins (Lexington Books, 2015, pp. 385-398).
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 13 Feb 2015
Last Revised: 15 Aug 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and University of Angers
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790
9.
Scamming: The Misunderstood Confidence Man
27 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 249 (2015), Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 13-37
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 23 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 17 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law (Deceased) and University of Arizona
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761
10.
Copyright Infringement, Sex Trafficking, and the Fictional Life of a Geisha
TJSL Public Law Research Paper No. 03-10
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 24 Oct 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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733
11.
Moral Pluck: Legal Ethics in Popular Culture
Stanford Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 17
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 15 Aug 2000
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Law School
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679
12.
Atticus Finch as Racial Accommodator: Answering Malcolm Gladwell's Critique
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 18 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 22 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
John Marshall Law School, Atlanta
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649
13.
The Great Gatsby: Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Oxford
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-38
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 13 Jun 2001
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Cowles Foundation
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635
14.
Literary Sleuths Online: e-Research Collaboration on the Pynchon Wiki
Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 25-45, 2008
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 23 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute and GSCM-Montpellier Business School
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562
15.
Heller's Catch 22
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 56, June 2009, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 09-10
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 15 Mar 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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549
16.
Memory and Morals in Memento: Hume at the Movies
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 21 Dec 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Guelph-Humber
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547
17.
The Cultural Salience of Moral Character and Virtue Declined in Twentieth Century America
Journal of Positive Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 31 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 15 Aug 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and London Business School
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524
18.
I Got the Shotgun: Reflections on The Wire, Prosecutors and Omar Little
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-33
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 22 Oct 2010
Last Revised: 23 Jul 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law
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513
19.
Crime, Legitimacy, Our Criminal Network, and the Wire
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 8, 2011, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-34
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 22 Oct 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
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502
20.
The Case for Christian Objectivism
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 19 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2008
Working Paper Series
Independent
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480
21.
Hi Superman, I'm a Lawyer: A Guide to Attorneys (& Other Legal Professionals) Portrayed in American Comic Books: 1910-2007
Widener Law Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, p. 159, 2009, University of Louisville School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2011-01
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 25 Jul 2007
Last Revised: 03 Feb 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
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462
22.
Administration and 'The Democracy': Administrative Law from Jackson to Lincoln, 1829-1861
Yale Law Journal, Vol. 117, No. 5, 2008, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 147
Number of pages: 126
Posted: 14 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 12 Dec 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Yale Law School
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447
23.
Excerpt from 'Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (Revised and Updated Edition)'
CONSPIRACY THEORIES: SECRECY AND POWER IN AMERICAN CULTURE (Revised and Updated Edition), University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 14 Apr 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Florida - Levin College of Law
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385
24.
Metaphor Making Meaning: Dickinson’s Conceptual Universe
Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 24, pp. 643-666, 1995
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 01 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
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353
25.
Blood Sack to Sacks of Blood: The Social Acceptance of the Vampire in Popular Culture
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 21 Oct 2010
Working Paper Series
Massey University
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347
26.
Writing and Terror: Don Delillo on the Task of Literature After 9/11
Law & Literature, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 277-302, 2007, Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 07-133
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 19 Jul 2007
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
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344
27.
The Philosophy of Tax: A Review of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
Law, Culture and the Humanities, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 28 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 15 Oct 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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343
28.
Hemingway Meets Beckett: Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 21 Jan 2008
Working Paper Series
Universidad de Zaragoza
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317
29.
Reflexivity in the Narrative Technique of 'As I Lay Dying'
English Language Notes, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1990
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 17 Apr 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Universidad de Zaragoza
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308
30.
I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 06 May 2012
Working Paper Series
Independent
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287
31.
Picturing Same-Sex Marriage in the Antebellum United States: The Union of 'Two Most Excellent Men' in Longstreet's 'A Sage Conversation'
Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 197-222, May 2010
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 13 May 2010
Last Revised: 01 Nov 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
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273
32.
Nihilism Need Not Apply: Law and Literature in Barth's 'the Floating Opera'
FSU College of Law, Public Law Working Paper No. 009
Number of pages: 113
Posted: 20 Apr 2000
Working Paper Series
Florida State University - College of Law
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264
33.
Slaves to Contradictions: 13 Myths that Sustained Slavery
U of Akron Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-21
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 22 Nov 2013
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
Duquesne University - School of Law
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34.
'These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead': Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery
UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2304305
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 18 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 09 Sep 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Alabama - School of Law
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258
35.
Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine: The Case of Amelia Norman
American Literature, Vol. 78, No. 325, 2006
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 23 Jun 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Lewis & Clark Law School and Lewis & Clark College
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258
36.
The Body in the Word: A Cognitive Approach to the Shape of a Poetic Text
COGNITIVE STYLISTICS: LANGUAGE AND COGNITION IN TEXT ANALYSIS, Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper, eds., John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 23-47, 2002.
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 03 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
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245
37.
The Content of Their Characters - J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield and Fredrik Colting
Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 291-345, Winter 2012, University of Washington School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-23
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 05 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 08 Nov 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington - School of Law
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38.
Racism, Feminism and Language in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 1, Number 2, May 2017
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 11 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Taif University
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231
39.
Emily Dickinson and the Discourse of Intimacy
SEMANTICS OF SILENCE IN LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE, Gudrun M. Grabher, Ulrike Jessner, eds., pp. 191-210, Universitätsverlag Winter, 1996
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 01 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
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212
40.
From Flat to Round: Changing Portrayals of the Judge in American Popular Culture
Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 06-24
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 15 May 2006
Working Paper Series
Marquette University - Law School
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212
41.
The Leopold and Loeb Trial: A Brief Account
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 25 Oct 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law
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212
42.
The Path to Post-Modernity, or, 'God is Dead and We Did It for the Kids!'
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Working Paper Series
Clemson University - College of Business and Behavioral Science
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211
43.
Of Philip K. Dick, Reflexivity, and Shifting Realities: Organizing (Writing) in Our Post-Industrial Society
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 19 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Essex
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202
44.
Stranger than Fiction: A Review of 'Midnight Assassin' by Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf
U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-37
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 25 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Wisconsin Law School
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197
45.
Operation of Ideology in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Number of pages: 5
Posted: 12 Jan 2014
Working Paper Series
Islamic Azad University (IAU) - Karaj Branch
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189
46.
The Poem as Complex Blend: Conceptual Mappings of Metaphor in Sylvia Plath's 'the Applicant'
Language and Literature, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 25-44, 2005
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 04 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
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188
47.
Bibliographica Necronomica: Selections from the Literature of Grimoires, Cursed Books and Unholy Bindings
5 Unbound: Annual Review of Legal History & Rare Books 5 (2012)
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 06 May 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
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187
48.
William Gibson's Pattern Recognition: Jet-Lagged Intimations of the Present
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 07 Nov 2007
Working Paper Series
Universidad de Zaragoza
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187
49.
Law, Force, and Resistance to Disorder in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
Thomas Jefferson Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 11 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
New England Law | Boston
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185
50.
Truth in Fiction: An Economic Interpretation of the Modern Novel with Case Studies of Lolita, a Bend in the River, and the House of Mirth
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 17 Mar 2004
Working Paper Series
Carleton College
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184
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