Robert Cover’s Nomos and Narrative and Thelma and Louise

This post is an attempt to move Robert Cover’s theory of nomoi from its original theoretical space (American critical legal studies) into the realm of cultural theory (i.e. to extract from it a methodology, a hermeneutic device, that can be used to examine cultural objects). There are three parts: the first is an exegesis of the hermeneutic device; the second is a specific application of it to the film Thelma and Louise; the third is a brief comparison of it with Louis Althusser’s theory.