{"product_id":"literary-criticisms-of-law-9780691007243","title":"Literary Criticisms of Law","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.12w x 1.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691007243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuyora Binder\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is the author of \u003ci\u003eTreaty Conflict and Political Contradiction\u003c\/i\u003e and a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCriminal Law\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRobert Weisberg\u003c\/b\u003e, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr., Professor of Law at Stanford University, is a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCriminal Law\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087113138291,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":74.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1419fe05-bef2-47cc-a2d9-9d72a2db59e9.jpg?v=1652537855","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/literary-criticisms-of-law-9780691007243","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}