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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.

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Introduction, Ruben Moi
Chapter One: A Vendor of the Body and the Spirit: Justice and Social Control in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, William Dwyer III
Chapter 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. Johnson
Chapter Three: Aesthetic Justice and Figuration of the Possible, Lene M. Johannessen
Chapter Four: Art and Justice in the Age of Neoliberalism, Asbjørn Grønstad
Chapter Five: Implicated Readers: Just Storytelling and Violence Against Migrant Women, Cassandra Falke
Chapter Six: The Legacy of Seamus Heaney’s North, Ruben Moi
Chapter Seven: Justice and Moral Development in Siobhan Dowd’s Bog Child, Erik Mustad
Chapter Eight: Poetic Justice and Translation: Seamus Heaney’s Two Greek Plays and the Troubles, Charles Ivan Armstrong
Chapter Nine: Art Write Cope and Samí Birgengoansttat, Biret-Jon-Risten-Kirste-Hanna Lill Tove / Lill Tove Fredriksen
Chapter 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 Lia
Chapter Eleven: ‘It’s just not fear’ – Fictional Narratives’ Role in the Development of Pupils’ Perception of Justice and Morality, Christopher Loe Olsen
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Published 19 Mar 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 222
ISBN 9781666952599
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Ruben Moi

Ruben Moi is professor of English and Irish litera…

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Charles I. Armstrong

Charles I. Armstrong is professor of English liter…

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Cassandra Falke

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Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad

Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad is Professor in the Depa…

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Lene M. Johannessen

Lene M. Johannessen is professor of American liter…

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Edvard Lia

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Ruben Moi

Ruben Moi is professor of English and Irish litera…

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Erik Mustad

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