Fiche du document
3 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufc.38490
- isbn: 9782848676593
- eisbn: 9782848678818
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Sujets proches
Crimes Felonies Misdemeanors Urban crime City crime Crime--Social aspects Crime and criminals DelinquencyCiter ce document
Wilson Costa Karyn, « Let the Punishment Fit the Crime: Robert Burns’s Poetic Justice », Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, ID : 10.4000/books.pufc.38490
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
‘You see, Sammy, your father is the Old Testament type: retribution rather than rehabilitation.’ […] ‘And he’s the classic Calvinist too, ’ Patience went on. ‘Let the punishment fit the crime, and then some.’ ‘That’s not Calvinism, ’ Rebus said. ‘It’s Gilbert and Sullivan.’ (Let it Bleed, 150). The lines above are taken from Let it Bleed, the seventh in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series. John Rebus is referring to Gilbert and Sullivan’s most well-known operetta, The Mikado (1885); the Mikad...