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Poetic justice and legal fictions /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Poetic justice and legal fictions // Jonathan Kertzer.
remainder title:	Poetic Justice & Legal Fictions
Author:	Kertzer, Jonathan,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 169 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Justice in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511712043
ISBN:	9780511712043 (ebook)

Poetic justice and legal fictions /
Kertzer, Jonathan,1946-

Poetic justice and legal fictions /Poetic Justice & Legal FictionsJonathan Kertzer. - 1 online resource (viii, 169 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

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

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511712043 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799980
Justice in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN56.J87 / K47 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.933553

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