LEADER 03648nam 22006375 450 001 9910785149603321 005 20230422051247.0 010 $a1-282-76703-8 010 $a9786612767036 010 $a1-4008-2363-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823635 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044612 035 $a(EBL)617322 035 $a(OCoLC)705527112 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000193049 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166587 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193049 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215606 035 $a(PQKB)11205613 035 $a(DE-B1597)446166 035 $a(OCoLC)979881388 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823635 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617322 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044612 100 $a20190708d2000 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiterary Criticisms of Law /$fRobert Weisberg, Guyora Binder 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2000] 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (557 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-00724-1 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tINTRODUCTION: Law as Literature --$tCHAPTER ONE. Interpretive Crises in American Legal Thought --$tCHAPTER TWO. Hermeneutic Criticism of Law --$tCHAPTER THREE. Narrative Criticism of Law --$tCHAPTER FOUR. Rhetorical Criticism of Law --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Deconstructive Criticism of Law --$tCHAPTER SIX .Cultural Criticism of Law --$tIndex 330 $aIn this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension of modern culture. They present lawyers as literary innovators, who creatively interpret legal authority, narrate disputed facts and hypothetical fictions, represent persons before the law, move audiences with artful rhetoric, and invent new legal forms and concepts. Binder and Weisberg explain the literary theories and methods increasingly applied to law, and they introduce and synthesize the work of over a hundred authors in the fields of law, literature, philosophy, and cultural studies. Drawing on these disparate bodies of scholarship, Binder and Weisberg analyze law as interpretation, narration, rhetoric, language, and culture, placing each of these approaches within the history of literary and legal thought. They sort the styles of analysis most likely to sharpen critical understanding from those that risk self-indulgent sentimentalism or sterile skepticism, and they endorse a broadly synthetic cultural criticism that views law as an arena for composing and contesting identity, status, and character. Such a cultural criticism would evaluate law not simply as a device for realizing rights and interests but also as the framework for a vibrant cultural life. 606 $aCulture and law 606 $aLaw -- Interpretation and construction 606 $aLaw and literature 606 $aLiterature - History and criticism 615 4$aCulture and law. 615 4$aLaw -- Interpretation and construction. 615 4$aLaw and literature. 615 4$aLiterature - History and criticism. 676 $a340 700 $aBinder$b Guyora$0241815 702 $aWeisberg$b Robert 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785149603321 996 $aLiterary Criticisms of Law$93769662 997 $aUNINA