DOI: https://doi.org/10.59321/BAUETJ.V4I2.30
AUTHOR(S)
Md. Nurul Quayum1
ABSTRACT
The interdisciplinary disposition of literature has in many ways unlocked its gates to other disciplines very recently. But we are still following, in most cases, the traditional model of teaching literature in our classrooms without regard to the fact that the pursuit of higher studies abroad fare better if our background is well-founded with interdisciplinarity. Moreover, it is a fault of our own that we have not yet tried to look at the texts from the legal point of view where a great amount of canonical and non-canonical texts deal with judicial and extra judicial proceedings. In addition to that, literary texts often inspire ‘legal transplants’, a form of borrowing of legal systems or concepts from foreign source, to deal with changing nature of the society and culture. It is not surprising that law and literature are complementary fields of study. It has now become imperative that we employ legal theories in the analysis of literary texts the way we have been doing with philosophy, psychology, political science, theology, history and sociology. It is the demand of the age that we build a pedagogical structure so that students can analyse literary texts from a legal perspective and pick up knowledge about day-to-day practical legal issues for personal and professional purposes. This paper aims to formulate a basic framework for legal analysis of literary texts. This framework then may be used in the classrooms to teach literary texts through legal point of view to make the study of literature more inclusive and pragmatic with regard to present academic inclination towards interdisciplinarity.