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Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry, and Narrative

Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry, and Narrative

Scheub, Harold

Paperback

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0299182142
ISBN13: 9780299182144
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Aug 8 2006
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.05
Language: English
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the legalization of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

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