Law, Literature, and Society

This blog will be used by students in the 2009 Spring Quarter class of Law, Literature, and Society at University of Cincinnati to publish responses to some of the texts we will be reviewing. One goal is to have a dynamic interchange--that is, not just for one person (the instructor) to see the responses, but for any and all of us to read, comment on, and respond to ideas raised. I may occasionally interject another question or comment as well, to redirect some discussion in ways that may usefully lead into another topic or reading. Our first responses will be to the text In Cold Blood by Trumane Capote.

In Cold Blood, Sections I and II

In these sections of ICB, questions might arise on many levels; for example, you may want to highlight the style of the text or the narrator; you may want to look at the facts that we're given and the allusions that are made beyond those facts; you may be interested in concepts such as fairness, innocence, or guilt; or you may be interested in contextual matters, such as the physical or cultural setting of the events in questions, contemporary occurences, or what has happened since that time. Whatever your interest, raise a question that you think is worth considering and/or do some research about an element of the text or idea that arises from the text.