Literature's Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice - Hardcover

Ruben Moi; Charles Armstrong

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666952583 ISBN 13: 9781666952582

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2024

Synopsis

Literature is an institution per se, as is justice, and these two institutions enact each other in complex ways. Justice appears in many forms from divine right and religious ordainment to metaphysical imperative and natural law, to national jurisdiction, social order, human rights, and civil disobedience. What is just and right has varied in time and place, in war and peace. A sense of justice appears inextricable from human concerns of ethics and morals. Literature includes a vast range of writing from holy texts to banned books. Parts of literature, particularly in the past, have laid down the law. In more recent history, literature has gradually assumed radical roles of critique, subversion, and transformation of the existing law and order, in contents, themes, language, and form. Literature’s Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice offers a selection of research that examines how various types of literature and arts give shape and significance to ideas of justice in various fields.

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About the Authors

Ruben Moi is professor of English and Irish literature at The Arctic University of Norway, where he also leads the Just Literature research group.

Charles I. Armstrong is professor of English literature at the University of Agder.

Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Lene M. Johannessen is professor of American literature at the University of Bergen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1666952583
• ISBN 13: 9781666952582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220