1. Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Sins
... their mutual suggestion that identity, as codified by the law and verified in its judgments of innocence or guilt, is both a set of comforting fictions fostering the illusion of social control and an imprisoning reality. The legal system depends on categorization, the creation of artificial boundaries between the individual and the group, master and slave, the free and the not free, those who are pardoned and those ... the use of science and an invocation of the law. The knowledgeable reader of Twain might know better, but most probably assume that David Wilson's technology can provide a...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate