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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461378203321

Autore

Stonebridge Lyndsey <1965->

Titolo

The judicial imagination : writing after Nuremberg / / Lyndsey Stonebridge [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5215-9

1-283-22181-0

9786613221810

0-7486-4705-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/355408209045

Soggetti

Justice in literature

Law and literature - History - 20th century

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gathering ashes: the judicial imagination in the age of trauma -- 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg -- The man in the glass booth: Hannah Arendt's irony -- Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's idiom of judgement -- 'We refugees': Hannah Arendt and the perplexities of human rights -- 'Creatures of an impossible time': late modernism, human rights and Elizabeth Bowen -- The dark background of difference: love and the refugee in Iris Murdoch.

Sommario/riassunto

Tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg.