Research and Markets: The Volume "Memory, Imagination, Justice" Discusses the Role of Imagination as A Creative Force Behind Legal Reform

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and
Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a2f436/memory_imaginatio) has
announced the addition of the "Memory, Imagination, Justice" report to their
offering.

'Through the creative use of literary analysis, Memory, Imagination, Justice
provides a critical and highly original discussion of contemporary topics in
criminal law and also in bioethics. Author David Gurnham uses popular and
classical texts, by authors including Shakespeare, Dickens, Euripides, Kafka,
the Brothers Grimm, Huxley and Margaret Atwood to shed fresh light on such
controversial legal and ethical issues as passionate homicide, life sentences,
child pornography and genetic enhancement. Gurnham's overarching theme is the
role of memory and imagination in shaping legal and ethical attitudes. Along
this line, the book examines the ways in which past wrongs are "remembered" and
may be forcefully responded to, both by the criminal justice system itself and
also by individuals responding to what they regard as gross insults, threats or
personal violations. The volume further discusses the role of imagination as a
creative force behind legal reform, in terms of the definition of criminal
behaviour and the possible future development of the law. These ideas provide a
useful and highly original perspective on contemporary issues of crime and
society as they resonate both in legal and literary discussion.

Key Topics Covered:

Introduction;

Part 1 Memory, or Ghosts of Violence Past: 'My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing
worth!' Hamlet, hot blood and malice aforethought; 'She has her just deserts by
your unjust act': Electra, revenge and the (im)possibility of a just cause;
'Abandon every hope all you who enter': punishment, communication and the
longevity of the whole life sentence.

Part 2 Childhood Innocence, or the Frozen Present: 'What sharp teeth you have,
Grandmother!' Grimm's tales of innocence and experience; Innocence, the image
and the unseen paedophile: spotting indecency in images of children; 'I must not
let anyone in; the 7 dwarves have forbidden me to do so': the violence of
innocence.

Part 3 Imagination, or Ghosts of Violence Yet to Come: 'What they are, yet I
know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth': nightmares of
science/fiction; Science fiction and the sadness of biotechnology:
deconstructing conservative nostalgia; References;

Index.

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