Research On“law In Literature”

In the 1970 s,Law and literature movement began to emerge in American academia,and the “law in literature”,one of the important branch of the law and literature movement,was revived as an opportunity.Generally speaking,the so-called “law in literature” is equivalent to set up an intermediate link between the jurist and the research object.The special feature of“law in literature” lies in the setting of intermediate links.The rationality of the introduction of literary texts into legal research lies in the fact that literature has some characteristics not possessed by law,and the introduction of literary texts can make up for some shortcomings of legal research to a certain extent.In the 1980 s,the “law in literature” was imprinted by the influx of the post-modernistic philosophy,which can be seen through the analysis of the philosophical basis and the interpretation of the “The stranger” of the literary text.The possibility of in-depth development of “law in literature” exists in two major research themes:legal history in literature and legal justice in literature,but this possibility also has certain limits.The article is divided into four parts.The first part is “law in literature” overview,follow from whole to part of the research ideas,through the relationship between law and literature discussion leads to “law in literature” and “law as literature”,two branches of law and literature movement,Then summarizes the formation of “the law in literature”,and explains the rationality of the introduction of literary texts into legal studies.The second part describes the post-modernity of “law in literature”,and expounds the post-modern characteristic of “law in literature” by expounding the post-modern philosophical basis of “law in literature”,trying to establish a more profound theoretical foundation.The third part is the text analysis,through the interpretation of Camus' s novel “The stranger” explained the literary text of the critical power and its embodied postmodernity.The fourth part is the possibility and limit of “law in literature”,and the possibility is located in the legal history in literature and legal justice in literature and carried out concrete discussion.