Jon Kertzer

Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how literary laws and values illuminate and challenge the jurisdiction of justice and the law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9780521196451
• ISBN-10: 0521196450
• Artikelnr.: 28523183

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Kertzer is Professor of English at the University of Calgary. His previous publications include Poetic Argument: Studies in Modern Poetry (1989), 'That House in Manawaka': Margaret Laurence's 'A Birl in the House' (1992) and Worrying the Nation: Imagining a National Literature in English Canada (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Le mot juste
2. Life plus ninety-nine years: the fantasy of legal fictions
3. Time's desire: the temporality of justice
4. One touch of nature: literature and natural law
5. The course of a particular: on literary singularity
6. Truth, justice and the pathos of understanding
7. Conclusion: legal fictions
Notes
Works cited
Index.