Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (5): 33-42.

• Dialogue between Chinese and Foreign Scholars: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Title: “Legal Literary Criticism” vs “Law and Literature”

Wu Di   

  • Online:2021-10-25 Published:2021-10-28
  • About author:Wu Di is a professor at Zhejiang Yuexiu University (Shaoxing 312000, China) and the School of Humanities, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou 310058, China), specializing in English and American literature, Russian literature, and translation studies. Email: hzwudi@yahoo.com
  • Supported by:
    “A Study of Pound's Translation Thought in the Perspective of Philosophical Hermeneutics” sponsored by the Social Science Fund of Zhejiang Province

Abstract: Both “legal literary criticism” and “law and literature” are interdisciplinary studies, but they have different purpose and scope. The former is an interdisciplinary study of literature, while the latter is an interdisciplinary study of law. The “law and literature” study, an academic movement prevailing in America and Europe, mainly has emerged in the legal field and used literary materials in legal research with an objective of drawing on literary elements to further the exploration of relevant legal issues, most of which come within the scope of legal studies. In contrast, “legal literary criticism”, the academic discourse used by Chinese scholars, belongs to the realm of literary studies. It is a study that addresses literature as subject with an objective of adopting certain legal perspective in literary criticism, i.e., drawing on the legal perspective and appropriate research methods in assessing literary works. In particular, we should examine the legal events, legal themes, legal thoughts of writers, and legal elements in the wording, style, and structure of literary works, so as to deepen our understanding and cognition of the writers and their works.

Key words: legal literary criticism, law and literature, interdisciplinary perspective

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