The Rushdie Incident as Law-and-Literature Parable

The Law-Literature Enterprise

Law and Literature

True-crime stories of outlaws have been a part of popular culture in England since the Middle Ages. Tales of criminality gained increasing circulation in print through the Old Bailey Sessions Papers (1674–1913) and the “dying confessions” published in broadside form by the Ordinary of Newgate in the eighteenth century.1 The confessional broadsides were designed as warnings for their audience; t...

Patterns, Process, and the Parable of the Coffeepot Incident: Arms Races Between Newts and Snakes from Landscapes to Molecules

The mountains of the Oregon Coast Range are not high on the list of places most people would think of visiting to conduct fieldwork on snakes. Most mornings begin with fog so dense that you cannot see from your sleeping bag to Tenmile Creek, running only 15 meters away. Even within the shelter of a tent, there is a perpetual dampness to everything you own and the feeling that moss is beginning ...

the effect of teaching reading as whole text task and paragraph task on efl learners speaking

abstract the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of a rather newly developed method in language teaching that is the use of paragraph reading task and whole reading task and their effects on improving efl learner’s speaking ability. to fulfill the purpose of the study, first 90 participants studying their course at sa eedi high school in tehran were chosen by means of ...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...