{"product_id":"death-sentences-birte-christ-9781781885574","title":"Death Sentences: Literature and State Killing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Albert Camus once remarked: 'Of capital punishment, people write only  ...] in a low voice.' Journalists and state officials alike use a carefully policed language when making any reference to the death penalty: when human beings are to be executed by the state, some key actors talk about what will be done in terms of legalities and procedures. Does fiction provide a counterbalance for that discretion, or simply echo it? What other perspectives can it bring into the foreground, and can literary language express a response to a supposedly necessary horror, or a terrible injustice, which other voices or media cannot?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidering a range of major works from across Western Europe and the United States, from the 18th century until the present day, \u003cem\u003eDeath Sentences\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the contribution of poetics to our understanding, past and present, of capital punishment. The sophisticated literary representations found in Hugo, Dostoevsky, Wilde, Kafka, Mailer, King and others offer a privileged vantage point from which to illuminate and critique a unique institution which itself relies heavily on spectacle and representation to be operative and legitimized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBirte Christ is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.  ve Morisi is Associate Professor of French and Fellow of St Hugh's College at the University of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Birte Christ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781885575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781885574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Legenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d","brand":"Birte Christ","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44138650468607,"sku":"9781781885574","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dad87242-7d88-42be-b5cf-d913a8ebea1d.jpg?v=1687900820","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/death-sentences-birte-christ-9781781885574","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}