Memory, imagination, justice : intersections of law and literature

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

Record details

ISBN: 9780754691075
ISBN: 0754691071
ISBN: 1282243128
ISBN: 9781282243125
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (viii, 215 pages).
Publisher: Farnham, UK : Ashgate, ©2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	'My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!' : Hamlet, hot blood and malice aforethought -- 'She has her just deserts by your unjust act' : Electra, revenge and the (im)possibility of a just cause -- 'Abandon every hope all you who enter' : punishment, communication and the longevity of the whole life sentence -- 'What sharp teeth you have, grandmother!' : Grimm's tales of innocence and experience -- Innocence, the image and the unseen paedophile : spotting indecency in images of children -- 'I must not let anyone in : the seven dwarfs have forbidden me to do so' : the violence of innocence -- 'What they are, yet I know not : but they shall be the terrors of the earth' : nightmares of science/fiction -- Science fiction and the sadness of biotechnology : deconstructing conservative nostalgia.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Restrictions: NLC students and staff only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.