TY  - GEN
T1  - Literary criticisms of law
A1  - Binder, Guyora
A2  - Weisberg, Robert, 1946-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm51443995
AB  - In 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.
OP  - 544
CN  - K487.C8 B56 2000eb
SN  - 1400811066
SN  - 9781400811069
SN  - 9781400823635
SN  - 1400823633
SN  - 0691007233
SN  - 0691007241
SN  - 1282767038
SN  - 9781282767034
SN  - 9780691007236
SN  - 9780691007243
KW  - Law and literature.
KW  - Culture and law.
KW  - Law : Interpretation and construction.
KW  - Literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Droit et littérature.
KW  - Culture et droit.
KW  - Droit : Interprétation.
KW  - Littérature : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LAW : Jurisprudence.
KW  - LAW : General Practice.
KW  - LAW : Reference.
KW  - LAW : Essays.
KW  - LAW : Paralegals & Paralegalism.
KW  - LAW : Practical Guides.
KW  - Culture and law
KW  - Law and literature
KW  - Law : Interpretation and construction
KW  - Literature
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -