Monday, March 7, 2011
Received: Wimpfheimer's Narrating the Law
I recently received Barry Wimpfheimer's new book, Narrating the Law. I hope that I will get a chance to offer some thoughts on it in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I though his discussion of Cover and Bakhtin is actually quite clear - if somewhat dense (contra Tzvee). I don't expect authors of medical articles to write accessibly, nor do I expect a disclaimer from them. The book is published by an academic press and caters to an audience that is nominally conversant with literary and legal theory. That is not jargon, it is called a technical language.
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The good news is that the heavy and dense writing at the outset of Wimpfheimer's book eases in the later parts. The other news is that the book's focus on "legal narrative" also diminishes, as the passages chosen for examination seem arbitrary, and the agenda gets fuzzier as the book unfolds, to the point where the conclusion hopes the book "empowers readers to critique the reading strategies" of the Talmud.
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