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Poetic justice and legal fictions /

"Literature reveals the intense efforts of moral imagination required to articulate what justice is and how it might be satisfied. Examining a wide variety of texts including Shakespeare's plays, Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, and modernist poetics, Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions e...

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Main Author:	Kertzer, Jonathan, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Justice in literature. Law and literature. Legal stories > History and criticism. Justice (Philosophy)
Online Access:	Cover image

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