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Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions

By Jonathan Kertzer

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521196450, 9780521196451
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
748 kB (766165 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
178\179
Time added
2013-12-27 16:45:13

Description

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 explores how literary laws and values illuminate and challenge the jurisdiction of justice and the law. Jonathan Kertzer examines how justice is articulated by its command of, or submission to, time, nature, singularity, truth, transcendence and sacrifice, marking the distance between the promise of justice to satisfy our moral and sociable needs and its failure to do so. Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions will be invaluable reading for scholars of the law within literature and amongst modernist and twentieth century literature specialists.

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