Law and “Green eggs and ham”
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https://doi.org/10.21119/anamps.62.431-448Parole chiave:
Dr. Seuss, "Green Eggs and Ham", children’s literature, didacticism, persistence.Abstract
This paper uses Green Eggs and Ham, the fourth best-selling children’s book of all time, as a case study to argue that non-didactic children’s literature is a fundamental source of law. It frames such literature as constitutive of internal behavioural rules in the child-reader and these rules as central to guiding human behaviour. It argues that the rules of behaviour which can be synthesised from non-didactic literature meet all of the main characteristics of law and are more fundamental than traditional sources of law. It, finally, offers two examples of behavioural rules which can be synthesised from Green Eggs and Ham, one regarding the importance of persistence and the other regarding the importance of open-mindedness.Downloads
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