Modernism and the meaning of corporate persons /
Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American corporate personhood in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886). Yet endowing a non-hu...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Law and literature (Oxford)
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Puzzle of Collective Intention
- Brief History of the Meaningful Corpus without a Soul
- Modernism's Corporate Person
- Outline of Chapters
- 1. Contracting without Meaning
- Frank Norris's "Full-Bellied Script"
- Drawing the Intending Colossus or Meaningless Monster
- Meeting the Minds of The Octopus
- Matching Signs with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Bad Man's Theory of Art
- 2. Incoherent Corporate Speech
- Buying F. Scott Fitzgerald's Mind Merchandise
- Literalizing the Marketplace of Ideas, from Ronald Coase to Citizens United
- Speaking with "Half a Dozen" Rings in The Love of the Last Tycoon
- Genre with Some Sugar: Pat Hobby's Coda
- 3. Emergent Corporate Mind
- Debating a Figure of Speech with Harold Laski and Justice Holmes
- How Corporate Mind Became Frederic Maidand's Action Problem
- Emergence of the Poetic n + 1
- Reading Gertrude Stein's G. M. P. on the Ticker Tape
- Modern Art versus Corporate Objects
- 4. Limited Poetic Liability
- Limits of Negligent Attention
- Piercing the Veil of Corporate Symbols with Maurice Wormser
- Theodore Dreiser's Master and No Master
- Charles Reznikoff's Social Political Correlative
- 5. Invisible Corporate Man
- "Any Person [s]" in the Fourteenth Amendment
- Was the Corporate Person Black?
- Every Citizen an Abstract Corporation Sole
- George Schuyler's Black No More, Incorporated and Patented
- Ralph Ellison's City of Invisibility
- Coda as brief: contemporary literature v. Hobby Lobby.