Law and Literature - the Danish Way on a Danish Crime Story

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作者：

Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe ^{[1
]}

Tamm, Ditlev ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Aarhus Univ, Comparat Literature, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

[2] Univ Copenhagen, Legal Hist, DK-1168 Copenhagen, Denmark

[3] Ctr Studies Legal Culture, Copenhagen, Denmark

来源：

LAW & LITERATURE | 2017年 / 29卷 / 01期

关键词：

Blicher; crime story; Pastor of Vejlbye; miscarriage of justice; false confession; law and literature; death penalty; judge; diary;

D O I：

10.1080/1535685X.2016.1246919

中图分类号：

I [文学];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

This article presents an introduction to the field of law and literature in Denmark and a legal and literary reading of one of the Western world's first crime stories, The Pastor of Vejlbye, written by the Danish writer Steen Steensen Blicher in 1829. This is a story based on a true case of a possible miscarriage of justice from the seventeenth century. The reading focuses on Blicher's story, the role of the judge, the nature of false confessions, the issue of the death penalty, and the whole narrative and diaristic setting that establishes a strong tension between the epic self-explanation of the pastor and the weak and hesitant diaristic prose of the judge.

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页码：123 / 141

页数：19