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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Guyora Binder; Robert Weisberg |
| ISBN: | 0691007233 9780691007236 0691007241 9780691007243 |
| OCLC Number: | 42598269 |
| Description: | xi, 544 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Law as Literature 3 -- From Letters to Literature 7 -- Literary Canons and Academies 13 -- Risks and Possibilities of Law and Literature 16 -- Genres of Criticism 20 -- Chapter 1 Interpretive Crises in American Legal Thought 28 -- 1.1 Crisis of Whig Hermeneutics 31 -- 1.2 Progressive Interpretation 56 -- 1.3 Crisis of Progressive Interpretation 87 -- Chapter 2 Hermeneutic Criticism of Law 112 -- 2.1 Literary Theories of Interpretation 114 -- 2.2 Law as Literary Interpretation 154 -- 2.3 Legal Hermeneutics in Practice 188 -- Chapter 3 Narrative Criticism of Law 201 -- Introduction: The Law as Narrative Trope 201 -- 3.1 Literary Theories of Narrative 209 -- 3.2 Instrumental Claims: Narrative as Law's Antagonist and Salvation 232 -- 3.3 Law and Narrative as Mutually Inherent 261 -- Conclusion: Performing the Law and Narrating the Nation 287 -- Chapter 4 Rhetorical Criticism of Law 292 -- Introduction: Law, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Authoritarianism 292 -- 4.1 A Very Brief History of Rhetoric 299 -- 4.2 Conservative Model o Rhetoric 309 -- 4.3 Is a Liberal Rhetoric Possible? 330 -- Chapter 5 Deconstructive Criticism of Law 378 -- 5.1 Derridean Deconstruction 380 -- 5.2 Deconstruction as Epistemological Criticism 408 -- 5.3 Deconstruction as Ethical Criticism 440 -- Chapter 6 Cultural Criticism of Law 462 -- 6.1 Theoretical Sources for Cultural Criticism of Law 464 -- 6.2 Cultural Readings of Disputes 480 -- 6.3 Cultural Readings of Capitalism 507. |
| Series Title: | Princeton paperbacks. |
| Responsibility: | Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg. |
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