Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature / edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richard H. McAdams, Martha C. Nussbaum.
2017
PN56.L33 F38 2017
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Title
Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature / edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richard H. McAdams, Martha C. Nussbaum.
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New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Description
xxii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
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Introduction
On my careers in crime / Scott Turow
Part I: Criminal histories. mercy at the Areopagus: a Nietzschean account of justice and joy in the Eumenides / Daniel Telech
Suborning perjury: a case study of narrative precedent in Talmudic law / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
A man for all treasons: crimes by and against the Tudor state in the novels of Hilary Mantel / Alison L. LaCroix
Representing Anne Green: historical and literary form, and the scenes of the crime in Oxford, 1651 / Marina Leslie
Cold-blooded and high-minded murder: the "case" of Othello / Richard Strier and Richard H. McAdams
What's love got to do with it? Sexual exploitation in Measure for Measure / Pamela Foa
Part II: Race and crime. Justice Thomas and Bigger Thomas / Justin Driver
Reconciliation without anger: Paton's Cry, the beloved country / Martha C. Nussbaum
Part III: Responsibility and violence. Kidnap, credibility, and the collector / Saul Levmore
Premeditation and responsibility in The Stranger / Jonathan Masur
Walking away: lessons from "Omelas" / Saira Mohamed and Melissa Murray
Before the law: imagining crimes against trees / Mark Payne
Part IV: Suspicion and investigation. Crime scenes: fictions of security in the antebellum American borderlands / Caleb Smith
Sleuthing toward Bethlehem: Oxford's Tamar, Jerusalem's Ohayon, and historical devices in detective fiction / Steven Wilf.
On my careers in crime / Scott Turow
Part I: Criminal histories. mercy at the Areopagus: a Nietzschean account of justice and joy in the Eumenides / Daniel Telech
Suborning perjury: a case study of narrative precedent in Talmudic law / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
A man for all treasons: crimes by and against the Tudor state in the novels of Hilary Mantel / Alison L. LaCroix
Representing Anne Green: historical and literary form, and the scenes of the crime in Oxford, 1651 / Marina Leslie
Cold-blooded and high-minded murder: the "case" of Othello / Richard Strier and Richard H. McAdams
What's love got to do with it? Sexual exploitation in Measure for Measure / Pamela Foa
Part II: Race and crime. Justice Thomas and Bigger Thomas / Justin Driver
Reconciliation without anger: Paton's Cry, the beloved country / Martha C. Nussbaum
Part III: Responsibility and violence. Kidnap, credibility, and the collector / Saul Levmore
Premeditation and responsibility in The Stranger / Jonathan Masur
Walking away: lessons from "Omelas" / Saira Mohamed and Melissa Murray
Before the law: imagining crimes against trees / Mark Payne
Part IV: Suspicion and investigation. Crime scenes: fictions of security in the antebellum American borderlands / Caleb Smith
Sleuthing toward Bethlehem: Oxford's Tamar, Jerusalem's Ohayon, and historical devices in detective fiction / Steven Wilf.
Summary
"Lawyers and fiction writers have always confronted crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equipped with a trial process that contains its own dramatic structure. This essay collection explores this profound and enduring literary engagement with crime and criminal justice. The essays in this collection span a wide array of genres, including tragic drama, science fiction, lyric poetry, autobiography, and mystery novels. The works discussed include works as old as fifth-century BCE Greek tragedy and as recent as contemporary novels, memoirs, and mystery novels. The cumulative result is arresting: there are "killer wives" and crimes against trees; a government bureaucrat who sends political adversaries to their death for treason before falling to the same fate himself; a convicted murderer who doesn't die when hanged; a psychopathogical collector whose quite sane kidnapping victim nevertheless also collects; Justice Thomas' reading and misreading of Bigger Thomas; a man who forgives his son's murderer and one who cannot forgive his wife's non-existent adultery; fictional detectives who draw on historical analysis to solve murders. These essays begin a conversation, and they illustrate the great depth and power of crime in literature."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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PN56.L33 F38 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780190610784 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0190610786 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0190610786 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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