Poetic justice and legal fictions / Jonathan Kertzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kertzer, Jonathan, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice in literature.

Law and literature.

Legal stories--History and criticism.

Legal stories.

Justice (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 169 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Poetic Justice & Legal Fictions

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Le mot juste

Life plus ninety-nine years : the fantasy of legal fictions

Time's desire : the temporality of justice

One touch of nature : literature and natural law

The course of a particular : justice and singularity

Truth, justice, and the pathos of understanding

Conclusion : Legal fictions.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20516-6

0-511-84667-3

1-283-14959-1

0-511-71359-2

9786613149596

0-511-71484-X

0-511-71276-6

0-511-71609-5

0-511-71204-9

0-511-72290-7

OCLC:

630536421