Memory, imagination, justice : intersections of law and literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gurnham, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2009]
Series:Law, justice, and power.
Subjects:
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.