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1.

The Catcher in the Rye: A Psychoanalytic Perspective and Social Activism

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Apr 2010
Working Paper Series
Jyoti George
Patkai Christian College
Downloads 1,025
2.

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
Margaret H. Freeman
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
Downloads 899
3.

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
Arthur J. Cockfield
Queen's University - Faculty of Law

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Downloads 896
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
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Harvard Law School
Downloads 886
5.

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
Daniel J. Solove
George Washington University Law School
Downloads 801
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
Alfred L. Brophy
University of Alabama - School of Law
Downloads 793
7.

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
Susan Tiefenbrun
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Downloads 690
8.

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
William H. Simon
Columbia University - Law School
Downloads 640
9.

'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
Matthew McCaffrey and Carmen Elena Dorobăţ
University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and University of Angers
Downloads 619
10.

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
Ray C. Fair
Yale University - Cowles Foundation
Downloads 613
11.

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
Lance McMillian
John Marshall Law School, Atlanta
Downloads 610
12.

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
Jean Braucher and Barak Orbach
University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law (Deceased) and University of Arizona
Downloads 553
13.

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
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Ralph Schroeder and Matthijs L. den Besten
University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute and GSCM-Montpellier Business School
Downloads 532
14.

Memory and Morals in Memento: Hume at the Movies

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Dec 2007
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George Bragues
University of Guelph-Humber
Downloads 504
15.

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
Alafair S. Burke
Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law
Downloads 478
16.

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
Adam Winkler
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads 476
17.

The Case for Christian Objectivism

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2008
Working Paper Series
Eric Demaree
Independent
Downloads 474
18.

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
I. Bennett Capers
Brooklyn Law School
Downloads 458
19.

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
William A. Hilyerd
University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Downloads 449
20.

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
Pelin Kesebir and Selin Kesebir
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Center for Investigating Healthy Minds and London Business School
Downloads 447
21.

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
Jerry Louis Mashaw
Yale Law School
Downloads 431
22.

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
Mark Fenster
University of Florida - Levin College of Law
Downloads 349
23.

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
Andrew Cardow
Massey University
Downloads 328
24.

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
Darien Shanske
University of California, Davis - School of Law
Downloads 323
25.

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
Adam Thurschwell
Independent
Downloads 319
26.

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
Margaret H. Freeman
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
Downloads 309
27.

Hemingway Meets Beckett: Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 21 Jan 2008
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Jose Angel Garcia Landa
Universidad de Zaragoza
Downloads 291
28.

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
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John Mikhail
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 291
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
Jose Angel Garcia Landa
Universidad de Zaragoza
Downloads 280
30.

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
Accepted Paper Series
Timothy Stewart-Winter and Simon Stern
Yale University and University of Toronto - Faculty of Law
Downloads 269
31.

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
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Rob Atkinson Jr.
Florida State University - College of Law
Downloads 254
32.

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
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Wilson Ray Huhn
University of Akron - School of Law
Downloads 249
33.

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
John T. Parry and Andrea L. Hibbard
Lewis & Clark Law School and Lewis & Clark College
Downloads 244
34.

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
Kate O'Neill
University of Washington - School of Law
Downloads 221
35.

I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 May 2012
Working Paper Series
Chenoy Ceil
Independent
Downloads 218
36.

'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
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Alfred L. Brophy
University of Alabama - School of Law
Downloads 215
37.

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
Margaret H. Freeman
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
Downloads 208
38.

The Path to Post-Modernity, or, 'God is Dead and We Did It for the Kids!'

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Jul 2009
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Colin D. Pearce
Clemson University - College of Business and Behavioral Science
Downloads 202
39.

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
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David Ray Papke
Marquette University - Law School
Downloads 198
40.

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
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Margaret Raymond
University of Wisconsin Law School
Downloads 194
41.

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
Margaret H. Freeman
Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts - MICA
Downloads 188
42.

Of Philip K. Dick, Reflexivity, and Shifting Realities: Organizing (Writing) in Our Post-Industrial Society

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Jan 2005
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Christian De Cock
University of Essex
Downloads 187
43.

The Leopold and Loeb Trial: A Brief Account

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 25 Oct 2007
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Douglas Linder
University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law
Downloads 181
44.

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
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Kurt X. Metzmeier
University of Louisville - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Downloads 174
45.

Red Leaves and the Dirty Ground: The Cannibalism of Law and Economics

33 American Indian Law Review 33 (2008-2009), MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-11
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Michigan State University College of Law
Downloads 174
47.

William Gibson's Pattern Recognition: Jet-Lagged Intimations of the Present

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 07 Nov 2007
Working Paper Series
Jose Angel Garcia Landa
Universidad de Zaragoza
Downloads 170
48.

Reading Back, Reading Black

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 35, No. 8, p. 101, 2007, Hofstra University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-2
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Accepted Paper Series
I. Bennett Capers
Brooklyn Law School
Downloads 169
49.

Laughing Whitefish: A Tale of Justice and Anishinaabe Custom

Robert Traver, LAUGHING WHITEFISH, Foreward, 1965, Michigan State University Press, Reprint 2011, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-16
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 30 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Michigan State University College of Law
Downloads 168
50.

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
Lawrence Friedman
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 166
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