Books written by Elizabeth S. Anker

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  Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature

  See, for instance, Barnett, Empire ofHumanity; Moyn, The Last Utopia; Beitz, The Idea ofHuman Rights; Normand and Zaidi, Human Rights at the UN; and Hunt, Inventing Human Rights. 2. Hannah Arendt's treatment of this paradox in The ...

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  New Directions in Law and Literature

  This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field while highlighting its many new directions.

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  On Paradox: The Claims of Theory

  In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century.

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  Critique and Postcritique

  In these and other essays this volume outlines the state of contemporary literary criticism while pointing to new ways of conducting scholarship that are better suited to the intellectual and political challenges of the present.

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  New Directions in Law and Literature

  Elizabeth S. Anker, Bernadette Meyler. Watt, Gary. Dress, Law and Naked Truth: A Cultural Study of Fashion and Form. London: Bloomsbury Academy, 2013. Webster, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language. Vol. 2. New York: S ...