Literature's Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Literature is an institution per se, as is justice, and these two institutions enact each other in complex ways. Justice appears in many forms from divine right and religious ordainment to metaphysical imperative and natural law, to national jurisdiction, social order, human rights, and civil disobedience. What is just and right has varied in time and place, in war and peace. A sense of justice appears inextricable from human concerns of ethics and morals. Literature includes a vast range of writing from holy texts to banned books. Parts of literature, particularly in the past, have laid down the law. In more recent history, literature has gradually assumed radical roles of critique, subversion, and transformation of the existing law and order, in contents, themes, language, and form. Literature’s Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice offers a selection of research that examines how various types of literature and arts give shape and significance to ideas of justice in various fields.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666952582

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Ruben Moi is professor of English and Irish literature at The Arctic University of Norway, where he also leads the Just Literature research group.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction, Ruben MoiChapter One: A Vendor of the Body and the Spirit: Justice and Social Control in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, William Dwyer IIIChapter Two: Drama and the Search for Justice: The Case of Philip Massinger’s Comedy, A New Way to Pay Old Debts (c. 1625/6), Anthony W. JohnsonChapter Three: Aesthetic Justice and Figuration of the Possible, Lene M. JohannessenChapter Four: Art and Justice in the Age of Neoliberalism, Asbjørn GrønstadChapter Five: Implicated Readers: Just Storytelling and Violence Against Migrant Women, Cassandra FalkeChapter Six: The Legacy of Seamus Heaney’s North, Ruben MoiChapter Seven: Justice and Moral Development in Siobhan Dowd’s Bog Child, Erik MustadChapter Eight: Poetic Justice and Translation: Seamus Heaney’s Two Greek Plays and the Troubles, Charles Ivan ArmstrongChapter Nine: Art Write Cope and Samí Birgengoansttat, Biret-Jon-Risten-Kirste-Hanna Lill Tove / Lill Tove FredriksenChapter Ten: The Lesson of Khaufpur and Morichjhãpi: Temporal Finitude and the Urgency of Environmental Justice in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Edvard LiaChapter Eleven: ‘It’s just not fear’ – Fictional Narratives’ Role in the Development of Pupils’ Perception of Justice and Morality, Christopher Loe OlsenAbout the Contributors