Author: Stanley Fish
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: communities, interpretive, authority, class, text
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 1982-06-25
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0674467264
ISBN-13: 9780674467262

Stanley Fish is one of America’s most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism’s most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers a stunning proposal for a new way of thinking about the way we read. Fish begins by examining the relation between a reader and a text, arguing against the formalist belief that the text alone is the basic, knowable, neutral, and unchanging component of literary experience. But in arguing for

Author: Stanley Fish
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: new, preface, author, second, lost, sin, reader, paradise, surprised
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1998-03-15
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 067485747X
ISBN-13: 9780674857476

In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil’s party with or without knowing it, the other proclaiming (in the tradition of Addison and C. S. Lewis) that the poet’s sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. The achievement of Stanley Fish’s Surprised by Sin was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are--that is, fallen--and the poem

Author: Stanley Fish
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: principle, trouble
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-03-02
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0674005341
ISBN-13: 9780674005341

Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers left and right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the trouble with principle. Specifically, Fish has a quarrel with neutral principles. The trouble? They operate by sacrificing everything people care about to their own purity. And they are deployed with equal highmindedness and equally absurd results by liberals and conservatives alike. In this bracing book, Fish argues that there is no realm o

Author: Stanley Fish
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: works, milton
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2001-06-12
List price: $46.50
ISBN-10: 0674004655
ISBN-13: 9780674004658

Stanley Fish’s Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world’s preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement begun in that work culminates in this book, the magnum opus of a formidable critic and the definitive statement on Milton for our time. How Milton works "from the inside out" is the foremost concern of Fish’s book, which explores the radical effect of Milton’s theological convictions on his poetry and prose. For Milton the value of a poem or of any other production deri

Author: Stanley Fish
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: time, own, world, save
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-08-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195369025
ISBN-13: 9780195369021

What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In Save the World On Your Own Time, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same. When teachers offer themselves as moralists, political activists, or agents of social change rather than as credentiale

Author: Stanley Fish
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: thing, speech, free
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1994-12-15
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0195093836
ISBN-13: 9780195093834

In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the culture at large, praised and pilloried as a vigorous debunker o

Authors:Fredric Jameson,  Stanley Fish,
Publisher: Duke University Pre
Keywords: contemporary, interventions, post, capitalism, cultural, logic, postmodernism
Number of Pages: 461
Published: 1991-05-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822310902
ISBN-13: 9780822310907

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of “postmodernism.” Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low,” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.