""Literary Criticisms of Law" shows what can happen when two shrewd
law professors take the time and have the theoretical
sophistication to master the wide variety of today's
state-of-the-art literary criticism. This absorbing book both maps
efforts in the last two decades to understand law as a kind of
literature and makes a compelling case for the most productive way
to do so. Avoiding the twin traps of radical skepticism and
moralizing sentimentality that have snared even some of the best
work in the field, Binder and Weisberg demonstrate how law shapes
culture and vice versa."--Brook Thomas, author of
"Cross-Examinations of Law And Literature, The New Historicism and
Other Old-Fashioned Topics," and "American Literary Realism and the
Failed Promise of Contract"
"No other work attempts what this one does, a synthetic account
of all the genres within the field of law and literature. As a
synthesis, this book is first-rate. It not only summarizes but also
puts to work a strong, acerbic critical intelligence, clarifying
what the authors think is valuable in some approaches and deficient
in others. The ability to provoke argument is one of the qualities
that makes "Literary Criticisms of Law" consistently interesting.
It is more theoretically sophisticated, historically informed, and
deeply reflective than any similar work in its field."--Robert W.
Gordon, Yale Law School
"A very impressive book. Each chapter contains numerous
original, sweeping, and, for the most part, convincing arguments
about large swaths of current legal intellectual history. As the
first and only attempt so far to synthesize and assess this
interdisciplinary field, the book will be extremely useful to
manyscholars in the humanities and social sciences."--Robin West,
Georgetown University Law Center
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