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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825240303321

Autore

Rosenshield Gary

Titolo

Western law, Russian justice : Dostoevsky, the jury trial, and the law / / Gary Rosenshield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-26981-X

9786612269813

0-299-20933-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 309 pages)

Disciplina

891.73/3

Soggetti

Law in literature

Jury in literature

Justice in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The imprisonment of the law : Dostoevsky and the Kroneberg case -- Dostoevsky and the Kornilova case : the realization of Russian justice -- The perils of narrative empathy : Dostoevsky, Buckley, Mailer, Styron, and their wards -- The brothers Karamazov : prosecuting the jury trial -- The brothers Karamazov : Russian justice.

Sommario/riassunto

Gary Rosenshield offers a new interpretation of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. He explores Dostoevsky's critique and exploitation of the jury trial for his own ideological agenda, in both his journalism and fiction. He shows how Dostoevsky explicitly dealt with the same problems that the law-and-literature movement has from the 1980s to present.