Dark Mirror : : The Sense of Injustice in Modern European and American Literature / / Richard C. Sterne.
Focusing on European and American trial fiction since about 1880, Dark Mirror argues that although it is generally animated by a sense of injustice, this literature reflects the virtual collapse in Western culture of the idea of a universal, or "natural," ethical law. From the ancient Gree...
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Sterne, Richard C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Dark Mirror : The Sense of Injustice in Modern European and American Literature / Richard C. Sterne. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022] ©1993 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Idealistic vs. Realistic Conceptions of Justice from Homer to George Eliot -- 2. The Sense of Injustice in Modern Religious Fiction -- 3. The Sense of Injustice in Modern Social Fiction -- 4. The Sense of Injustice in Modern Absurdist Fiction -- 5. A "Dissenting" Perspective -- Conclusion: Toward a Renewal of the Dialogue -- List of Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Focusing on European and American trial fiction since about 1880, Dark Mirror argues that although it is generally animated by a sense of injustice, this literature reflects the virtual collapse in Western culture of the idea of a universal, or "natural," ethical law. From the ancient Greeks to the Victorians, that idea, though powerfully contested by the notion that justice was simply "the interest of the stronger," remained vigorously alive in books as in people’s minds. It thus constituted an alternative to injustice which modern literature, whether its angle is religious, social, or absurdist, rarely presents. Sterne presents the argument that the tradition of natural law can be adapted to the present condition, a hypothesis that necessitates a view of an international community in which distributive as well as punitive justice is done. Creators of literature, who have so persuasively dramatized the corruptions, cruelties, and absurdities of our time, would then eb called upon to increasingly choose to imagine "just" ways for us to emerge from chaos. Dark Mirror is the first study that combines, comprehensively, the treatment of the historical conflict between idealistic (natural law) and "realistic" or cynical approaches to the idea of justice. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 9783110743296 print 9780823215102 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295364 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823295364 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823295364/original |
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