Memory, Imagination, Justice

Download or read book Memory, Imagination, Justice written by David Gurnham and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the creative use of literary analysis, Memory, Imagination, Justice provides a critical and highly original discussion of contemporary topics in criminal law and bioethics. Using popular and classical texts, by authors including Shakespeare, Dickens, Euripides, Kafka, the Brothers Grimm, Huxley and Margaret Atwood, this volume sheds fresh light on such controversial legal and ethical issues as passionate homicide, life sentences, child pornography and genetic enhancement.