Literature’s Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice explores two of the fundamental institutions in human existence and social democracy that attend to philosophical consideration and critical discussion of how literature interacts with the phenomena of justice.

Introduction, Ruben Moi
Chapter One: A Vendor of the Body and the Spirit: Justice and Social Control in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, William Dwyer III
Chapter Two: Drama and the Search for Justice: The Case of Philip Massinger’s Comedy, A New Way to Pay Old Debts (c. 1625/6), Anthony W. Johnson
Chapter Three: Aesthetic Justice and Figuration of the Possible, Lene M. Johannessen
Chapter Four: Art and Justice in the Age of Neoliberalism, Asbjørn Grønstad
Chapter Five: Implicated Readers: Just Storytelling and Violence Against Migrant Women, Cassandra Falke
Chapter Six: The Legacy of Seamus Heaney’s North, Ruben Moi
Chapter Seven: Justice and Moral Development in Siobhan Dowd’s Bog Child, Erik Mustad
Chapter Eight: Poetic Justice and Translation: Seamus Heaney’s Two Greek Plays and the Troubles, Charles Ivan Armstrong
Chapter Nine: Art Write Cope and Samí Birgengoansttat, Biret-Jon-Risten-Kirste-Hanna Lill Tove / Lill Tove Fredriksen
Chapter Ten: The Lesson of Khaufpur and Morichjhãpi: Temporal Finitude and the Urgency of Environmental Justice in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide, Edvard Lia
Chapter Eleven: ‘It’s just not fear’ – Fictional Narratives’ Role in the Development of Pupils’ Perception of Justice and Morality, Christopher Loe Olsen
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