The Resource Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature, edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richard H. McAdams, Martha C. Nussbaum
Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature, edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richard H. McAdams, Martha C. Nussbaum
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- "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."--
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- eng
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- Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature
- Title
- Fatal fictions
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- crime and investigation in law and literature
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- edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richard H. McAdams, Martha C. Nussbaum
- Language
- eng
- 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."--
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- LaCroix, Alison L.
- McAdams, Richard H.
- Nussbaum, Martha Craven
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- Law in literature
- Law and literature
- Crime in literature
- Legal stories
- Justice, Administration of, in literature
- Crime in literature
- Justice, Administration of, in literature
- Law and literature
- Law in literature
- Legal stories
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- Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature, edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richard H. McAdams, Martha C. Nussbaum
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- text
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- txt
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- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9780190610784
- Lccn
- 2016015918
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- rdamedia
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- n
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- YBP Library Services
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- (OCoLC)953576362
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- Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature, edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richard H. McAdams, Martha C. Nussbaum
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Extent
- pages cm
- Isbn
- 9780190610784
- Lccn
- 2016015918
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Note
- YBP Library Services
- System control number
- (OCoLC)953576362
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