Storytelling Without Fear? Confession in Law and Literature

Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 114-134

  Brooks, Peter ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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3. Michigan v. Tucker, 417 U.S. 433 (1974).
4. Wolfgang Iser, The Implied Reader [Der Implizite Leser] (Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984).
5. John H. Langbein, Torture and the Law of Proof (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 3-17.
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12. J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962).
13. This is consonant with the psychoanalytic model of confession developed by Theodor Reik in The Compulsion to Confess (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959).
14. Abraham M. Hershman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949), 52-53
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16. De Man, Allegories of Reading, 299-300.
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20. Weisberg, "Criminal Law, Criminology, and the Small World of Legal Scholars", 538-40.
21. Jorge Luis Borges, "The Shape of the Sword," trans. D. A. Yerby, in Borges, Labyrinths (New York: New Directions, 1954), 71.
22. Albert Camus, La chute (1956; Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1968), 119,152.