Memory, imagination, justice
Subtitle: intersections of law and literature
By: by David Gurnham.
Series: Law, justice and power
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754671039; 9780754691075
Subjects: Law and literature; Law in literature
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" Hamlet, hot blood and malice aforethought; title: "She has her just deserts by your unjust act" : revenge and the (im)possibility of a just cause for provoked killing; title: "Abandon every hope all you who enter" : punishment, communication and the longevity of the whole life sentence; title: "What sharp teeth you have, grandmother!" : songs of innocence and experience; title: Innocence, the image and the unseen paedophile : spotting indecency in images of children; title: "I must not let anyone in : the seven dwarfs have forbidden me to do so" : the violence of innocence; title: "What they are, yet I know not : but they shall be the terrors of the earth" : nightmares of science/fiction; title: Science fiction and the sadness of biotechnology : deconstructing conservative nostalgia.