scholarly journals WORDS THAT MIGHT SAVE NECKS: PHILIPP KHABO KOEPSELL, EPISTEMIC MURDER AND POETIC JUSTICE 1

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Poetic Justice

Die ‚patria potestas‘ in Boccaccios ‚Decameron‘

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-82
Author(s):  
Pia Claudia Doering
Keyword(s):  
Central Theme ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
Vigilante Justice ◽  
Poetic Justice

AbstractThe power of fathers over their children – especially over their daughters – is a central theme of Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’. Novella V,7 situates the ‘patria potestas’ in a tension-filled position between honour and law, vigilante justice and public prosecution. The legitimation of cruelty and violence by invoking the ‘patria potestas’ is questioned through the confrontation with poetic justice.

“Moral Enigma” in Shakespeare’s Othello? An Exercise in Philosophical Hermeneutics

Janus Head ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-155
Author(s):  
Norman Swazo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Philosophical Hermeneutics ◽  
Moral Significance ◽  
Poetic Justice

Literary criticism of Shakespeare’s Othello since the early 20th century leaves us with various complaints that Shakespeare fails to achieve poetic justice therein, or that this work leaves us, in the end, with a moral enigma—despite what seems to be Shakespeare’s intent to represent a plot and characters having moral probity and, thereby, to foster our moral edification through the tragedy that unfolds. Here a number of interpretive views concerning the morality proper to Othello are reviewed. Thereafter, it is proposed that Heidegger’s thought about the relation of appearance, semblance, and reality enables a novel interpretation of the moral significance of this tragedy, thereby to resolve the question of moral enigma.

Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-190
Author(s):  
Patricia Pisters
Keyword(s):  
Political Agency ◽  
The Past ◽  
Female Directors ◽  
Three Guineas ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Poetic Justice ◽  
Female Scientists ◽  
Parable Of The Sower ◽  
White Material

This chapter will return to Woolf’s Three Guineas and political agency and look at Butler’s Kindred and Parable of the Sower. Thechapter has three sections, each addresses different types of political horror. First there is a return to racial and colonial terror in Euzhan Palcy’s A Dry White Season (1989), Claire Denis’s Chocolat (1988) and White Material (2009). Then the chapter takes us to the outcasts and powerful lost souls in man-eat-men environments in The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2016), Tigers are not Afraid (Issa Lopez, 2017) and Songs My Brothers Taught Me (Chloé Zhao, 2015). In Atlantics (Mati Diop 2019) the sea off the coast of Senegal raises many ghosts from the past and the present. The chapter concludes with a section of eco-horror through the eyes of female directors: Spoor (Agnieska Holland 2017) is an allegory of the feminist backlash in contemporary Poland, wrapped in a hunting tale. Little Joe (Jessica Hausner 2019) and Glass Garden (Shin Sue-won 2017) are contemporary Frankenstein stories with idiosyncratic female scientists.

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