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Prag zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der sechzehnjährige Karl Roßmann wird wegen eines undurchsichtigen erotischen Verhältnisses mit einem Dienstmädchen von seinen Eltern hart bestraft: Sie schicken ihn nach Amerika. Doch was als Strafe gedacht war, eröffnet dem Jungen ein neues Leben, fernab der konservativen Heimat.

This work is presented as part of eLangdell Press' Law and Literature Collection. It was selected based on a review of syllabi in this discipline."The law and literature movement focuses on the interdisciplinary connection between law and literature. This field has roots in two major developments in the intellectual history of law—first, the growing doubt about whether law in isolation is a source of value and meaning, or whether it must be plugged into a large cultural or philosophical or social-science context to give it value and meaning; and, second, the growing focus on the mutability of meaning in all texts, whether literary or legal. Those who work in the field stress one or the other of two complementary perspectives: law in literature (understanding enduring issues as they are explored in great literary texts) and law as literature (understanding legal texts by reference to methods of literary interpretation, analysis, and critique).This movement has broad and potentially far reaching implications with regards to future teaching methods, scholarship, and interpretations of legal texts. Combining literature's ability to provide unique insight into the human condition through text with the legal framework that regulates those human experiences in reality gives a democratic judiciary a new and dynamic approach to reaching the aims of providing a just and moral society. It is necessary, in practical thought and discussion about the use of legal rhetoric, to understand text's role in defining human experience." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_literature84,525 Words, 179 Pages in PDF

Janko Ferks juristischen Aufsätzen werden Franz Kafkas Originaltexte vorangestellt, damit nachgelesen werden kann, worauf sich die Auslegungen und Darstellungen beziehen. Die ausgewählten Texte, die "Strafen", drei berühmte Geschichten in der Wunsch-Zusammenstellung des Autors, orientieren sich an der Erstveröffentlichung, so auch die Rechtsschreibung

Kafka's short story dramatizes the problematic relationship between power and justice by channeling parabolic imagery from the depths of our social existence and psyche. The Kafka expert Renate Weiner and the Florentine criminal jurist Robert Bartoli, a leading Italian scholar of law and literature, offer commentaries on Kafka's text from their respective disciplines.