Memory, imagination, justice : intersections of law and literature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub.,
[2009]
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| Series: | Law, justice, and power.
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Table of Contents:
- "My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" Hamlet, hot blood and malice aforethought
- "She has her just deserts by your unjust act" : revenge and the (im)possibility of a just cause for provoked killing
- "Abandon every hope all you who enter" : punishment, communication and the longevity of the whole life sentence
- "What sharp teeth you have, grandmother!" : songs 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.