حافظه، تخیل، عدالت: تقاطع‌های قانون و ادبیات

Through the creative use of literary analysis, "Memory, Imagination, Justice" provides a critical and highly original discussion of contemporary topics in criminal law and also in bioethics. Author David Gurnham uses popular and classical texts, by authors including Shakespeare, Dickens, Euripides, Kafka, the Brothers Grimm, Huxley and Margaret Atwood to shed fresh light on such controversial legal and ethical issues as passionate homicide, life sentences, child pornography and genetic enhancement. Gurnham's overarching theme is the role of memory and imagination in shaping legal and ethical attitudes. Along this line, the book examines the ways in which past wrongs are 'remembered' and may be forcefully responded to, both by the criminal justice system itself and also by individuals responding to what they regard as gross insults, threats or personal violations. The volume further discusses the role of imagination as a creative force behind legal reform, in terms of the definition of criminal behavior and the possible future development of the law. These ideas provide a useful and highly original perspective on contemporary issues of crime and society as they resonate both in legal and literary discussion. Contents......Page 6 Table of Cases......Page 8 Table of Statutes......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 Part 1 Memory, or Ghosts of Violence Past......Page 22 1 ‘My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!’ Hamlet, Hot Blood and Malice Aforethought......Page 24 2 ‘She has her just deserts by your unjust act’: Electra, Revenge and the (Im)possibility of a Just Cause......Page 50 3 ‘Abandon every hope all you who enter’: Punishment, Communication and the Longevity of the Whole Life Sentence......Page 78 Part 2 Childhood Innocence, or the Frozen Present......Page 102 4 ‘What sharp teeth you have, Grandmother!’ Grimm’s Tales of Innocence and Experience......Page 104 5 Innocence, the Image and the Unseen Paedophile: Spotting Indecency in Images of Children......Page 124 6 ‘I must not let anyone in; the seven dwarves have forbidden me to do so’: The Violence of Innocence......Page 144 Part 3 Imagination, or Ghosts of Violence Yet to Come......Page 166 7 ‘What they are, yet I know not: But they shall be the terrors of the earth’: Nightmares of Science/Fiction......Page 168 8 Science Fiction and the Sadness of Biotechnology: Deconstructing Conservative Nostalgia......Page 188 List of References......Page 214 Index......Page 224 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. Author David Gurnham uses popular and classical texts, by authors including Shakespeare, Dickens, Euripides, Kafka, the Brothers Grimm, Huxley and Margaret Atwood to shed fresh light on such controversial legal and ethical issues as passionate homicide, life sentences, child pornography and genetic enhancement. Gurnham's overarching theme is the role of memory and imagination in shaping legal and ethical attitudes. Along this line, this book examines the ways in which past wrongs are remembered and may be forcefully responded to, both by the criminal justice system itself and also by individuals responding to what they regard as gross insults, threats or personal violations. The volume further discusses the role of imagination as a creative force behind legal reform, in terms of the definition of criminal behaviour and the possible future development of the law. These ideas provide a useful and highly original perspective on contemporary issues of crime and society as they resonate both in legal and literary discussion. "My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!" Hamlet, hot blood and malice aforethought "She has her just deserts by your unjust act" : revenge and the (im)possibility of a just cause for provoked killing "Abandon every hope all you who enter" : punishment, communication and the longevity of the whole life sentence "What sharp teeth you have, grandmother!" : songs of innocence and experience Innocence, the image and the unseen paedophile : spotting indecency in images of children "I must not let anyone in : the seven dwarfs have forbidden me to do so" : the violence of innocence "What they are, yet I know not : but they shall be the terrors of the earth" : nightmares of science/fiction Science fiction and the sadness of biotechnology : deconstructing conservative nostalgia. Through the creative use of literary analysis, this book provides a critical and highly original discussion of contemporary topics in criminal law and also in bioethics. The author uses popular and classical texts to shed fresh light on such controversial legal and ethical issues as passionate homicide and child pornography 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.