Detalls del llibre
Five important novels--McTeague, An American Tragedy, Native Son, In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song--bring readers a vivid awareness of America's punitive codes. Each details the story of a life that leads to the gallows. Sentenced to Death places these works against the historical background of crime and capital punishment in America, a nation where public discourse on crime is dominated by images of the electric chair and the gas chamber, by maximum security prisons, by hardened convicts out on parole. Such images, in turn mirror and shape the exercise of punitive power.
This probing look at capital punishment in execution novels and in real-life media accents the poles of punitive power. Such a comparison of literary works with confrontational journalism and court records also brings revealing insight into the long-term debate on capital punishment in American culture.
- Autor/a David Guest
- ISBN13 9781604730159
- ISBN10 1604730153
- Pàgines 179
- Any Edició 2007
- Fecha de publicación 01/11/2007
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
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Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment (Alemany, Francès)
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- David Guest
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- University Press of Mississippi (2007)
- 9781604730159



