Description: When Words Lose Their MeaningAuthor(s): James Boyd White Format: Paperback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226895024, 978-0226895024 Synopsis Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual community" established between writer and audience. These striking textual analyses develop a rhetoric-a "way of reading" that can be brought to any text but that, in broader terms, becomes a way of learning that can shape the reader's life. "In this ambitious and demanding work of literary criticism, James Boyd White seeks to communicate 'a sense of reading in a new and different way.' . . . [White's] marriage of lawyerly acumen and classically trained literary sensibility-equally evident in his earlier work, The Legal Imagination-gives the best parts of When Words Lose Their Meaning a gravity and moral earnestness rare in the pages of contemporary literary criticism."-Roger Kimball, American Scholar "James Boyd White makes a state-of-the-art attempt to enrich legal theory with the insights of modern literary theory. Of its kind, it is a singular and standout achievement. . . . [White's] selections span the whole range of legal, literary, and political offerings, and his writing evidences a sustained and intimate experience with these texts. Writing with natural elegance, White manages to be insightful and inciteful. Throughout, his timely book is energized by an urgent love of literature and law and their liberating potential. His passion and sincerity are palpable."-Allan C. Hutchinson, Yale Law Journal "Undeniably a unique and significant work. . . . When Words Lose Their Meaning is a rewarding book by a distinguished legal scholar. It is a showcase for the most interesting sort of inter-disciplinary work: the kind that brings together from traditionally separate fields not so much information as ideas and approaches."-R. B. Kershner, Jr., Georgia Review
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Book Title: When Words Lose Their Meaning
Number of Pages: 394 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 1985
Subject: Mathematics
Item Height: 228 mm
Item Weight: 590 g
Type: Study Guide
Author: James Boyd White
Subject Area: Religious Sociology
Item Width: 153 mm
Format: Paperback
