Contents

pp v-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-ix

Dedication

pp x-x

Introduction

pp 1-8

PART I - THE ENCHANTMENT OF KNOWLEDGE: FACT AND FICTION IN LAW AND LITERATURE

pp 9-10

1 - The Enchantment of Knowledge and its Apotheosis: Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet

pp 11-27

2 - A Raid on the Inarticulate

pp 28-45

3 - Explanation or Understanding: Language and Interdisciplinarity

pp 46-63

4 - Understanding Fact and Fiction in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities

pp 64-79

5 - Poetry that Does not Fade: Gerrit Achterberg’s Experience with Law and Forensic Psychiatry

pp 80-92

PART II - IURIS PRUDENTIA OR INSIGHTFUL KNOWLEDGE OF LAW

pp 93-94

6 - Practical Knowledge: Facts, Norms and Phronèsis

pp 95-116

7 - Metaphor and (Dis)belief

pp 117-136

8 - Narrative Intelligence: Empathy, Mimesis and the Equitable

pp 137-158

9 - Towards a Legal Narratology I: Probability, Fidelity and Plot

pp 159-180

10 - Towards a Legal Narratology II: Implications and Pathologies

pp 181-204

PART III - THE PERPLEXITY OF JUDGES

pp 205-206

11 - Empathy Revisited: Who’s in Narrative Control?

pp 207-228

12 - Person and Poiesis in Technology and Law: Questioning Builds a Way

pp 229-248

13 - Control, Alt, Delete? Information Technology and the Human

pp 249-269

Coda

pp 270-270

Bibliography

pp 271-294

Index

pp 295-307