Memory, Imagination, Justice: Intersections of Law and Literature

by David Gurnham

Book Overview

Through the creative use of literary analysis, Memory, Imagination, Justice provides a critical and highly original discussion of contemporary topics in criminal law and bioethics. Using popular and classical texts, by authors including Shakespeare, Dickens, Euripides, Kafka, the Brothers Grimm, Huxley and Margaret Atwood, this volume sheds fresh light on such controversial legal and ethical issues as passionate homicide, life sentences, child pornography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138266175
• ISBN13: 9781138266179
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"