David Gurnham

Memory, Imagination, Justice

Intersections of Law and Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Through the creative use of literary analysis, Memory, Imagination, Justice provides a critical and highly original discussion of contemporary topics in criminal law and bioethics. Using popular and classical texts, by authors including Shakespeare, Dickens, Euripides, Kafka, the Brothers Grimm, Huxley and Margaret Atwood, this volume sheds fresh light on such controversial legal and ethical issues as passionate homicide, life sentences, child pornography and genetic enhancement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9781138266179
• ISBN-10: 1138266175
• Artikelnr.: 57040165

Autorenporträt

Dr David Gurnham is a Reader in Law at the University of Southampton. He teaches and researches in the areas of Literary Jurisprudence, Criminal Law and Healthcare Law and Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part 1 Memory, or Ghosts of Violence Past; Chapter 1 'My
thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!' Hamlet, Hot Blood and Malice
Aforethought; Chapter 2 'She has her just deserts by your unjust act':
Electra, Revenge and the (Im)possibility of a Just Cause; Chapter 3
'Abandon every hope all you who enter': Punishment, Communication and the
Longevity of the Whole Life Sentence; Part 2 Childhood Innocence, or the
Frozen Present; Chapter 4 'What sharp teeth you have, Grandmother!' Grimm's
Tales of Innocence and Experience; Chapter 5 Innocence, the Image and the
Unseen Paedophile: Spotting Indecency in Images of Children; Chapter 6 'I
must not let anyone in; the seven dwarves have forbidden me to do so': The
Violence of Innocence; Part 3 Imagination, or Ghosts of Violence Yet to
Come; Chapter 7 'What they are, yet I know not: But they shall be the
terrors of the earth': Nightmares of Science/Fiction; Chapter 8 Science
Fiction and the Sadness of biotechnology: Deconstructing Conservative
Nostalgia;