Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature / edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richar...
Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature / edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Richar...
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]
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G 2017/1902
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English
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Physical content
xxii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
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text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
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 t...
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Publisher
New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
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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 str...
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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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©2017
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G 2017/1902
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74VKVaJJyRPy
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ISBN
0190610786 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780190610784 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
DDC
809.933554
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991024101017802626
