Fish, Stanley Eugene

Overview

Works:	102 works in 346 publications in 4 languages and 19,145 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
Roles:	Compiler, Editor, Honoree, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Correspondent
Classifications:	PN81, 821.4

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Publications about Stanley Eugene Fish

Publications by Stanley Eugene Fish

Most widely held works about Stanley Eugene Fish

Religion and the demise of liberal rationalism : the foundational crisis of the separation of church and state by J. Judd Owen ( Book )
Figures of dissent : critical essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and others by Terry Eagleton ( Book )
Postmodern sophistry : Stanley Fish and the critical enterprise ( Book )
Justifying belief : Stanley Fish and the work of rhetoric by Gary A Olson ( Book )
Rhetorical faith : the literary hermeneutics of Stanley Fish by Phillip J Donnelly ( Book )

Resurrecting interpretation : technology, hermeneutics, and the parable of the Rich man and Lazarus by Simon Perry ( Book )
Contemporary literary criticism ( )
An analysis of Stanley Fish's critical theory in light of post-modern thought, or, Babel revisited by Christopher Louis Lang ( Book )
Readers' responses versus reader-response theories: an empirical study by Cecilia Therman ( Book )
Representaciones de la violencia en la poesía de la guerra civil española by Juan Antonio de Urda Anguita ( )
Creating and controlling plurality : a critique of some attempts to unify the profession of literary studies by Donald J Kraemer ( Book )
Speech-act theory and reader-response criticism by Joel Francis Jackson ( Book )
Cross-currents in interpretation : hermeneutics, deconstruction, and the law by Henry Aaron Patner ( Book )
Liberalism and freedom of the press : from John Milton to Stanley Fish and beyond by Stacey Elaine Searl-Chapin ( )
The insistence of "law is politics" or legal reason since Roe : an analysis of the rhetorical criticism of legal discourse by Stephen E Crowley ( Book )
The absorbed self : investigations of consciousness by Jennifer C Goldman ( Book )
Reading the law of the jungle : Stanley Fish's 'interpretative community' in literary and legal interpretation by Amy Helen Mansfield ( Book )
Knowledge of the self by Laird Stevens ( Book )
How to do things with Fish and MacIntyre: speech act theory, dramatic narrative, and the interpretation of moral utterance by Jason Hannan ( Book )
Stanley Fish's neopragmatism and its application to belief in Christ by David C Peters ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Stanley Eugene Fish

Surprised by sin : the reader in "Paradise lost." by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
33 editions published between 1967 and 2001 in English and held by 1,824 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
First published thirty years ago, Stanley Fish's classic study of the role of reader response in Milton's Paradise Lost heralded a new era in Milton criticism an era in which one no longer needed to choose between Milton's orthodoxy or heresy. Rather, Fish allowed us to see the epic poem as a self-revelatory experience in which the reader is "intangled" in the folds of Satan's rhetoric and Is forced to reevaluate his or her judgment of Satan by being led to experience the unreliability, inadequacy, or falseness of what had once seemed to be clear or true. In a new Preface, Fish revists the thesis of Surprised by Sin and considers the challenges offered by post-structuralism, new historicism, and political criticism

How to write a sentence : and how to read one by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
9 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 1,619 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fish has always been an aficionado of language, marveling at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences. Here he offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader)

There's no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing, too by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
15 editions published between 1994 and 2011 in English and held by 1,577 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 - the terms 'liberal' and 'politically correct', are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as 'reactionary' and 'fascist' are by the left. In There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, Fish takes aim at the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties. In his witty, accessible dissections of the swirling controversies over multiculturalism, affirmative action, canon revision, hate speech, and legal reform, he takes both the left and the right equally to task. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the outcome of America's cultural wars

How Milton works by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
10 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 1,477 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Explores the radical effect of Milton's theological convictions on his peotry and prose."--cover

Is there a text in this class? : The authority of interpretive communities by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
15 editions published between 1980 and 2003 in English and held by 1,473 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of essays concerning language, literature, reading, writing and the reader

Self-consuming artifacts : the experience of seventeenth-century literature by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
18 editions published between 1972 and 1998 in English and held by 1,317 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Doing what comes naturally : change, rhetoric, and the practice of theory in literary and legal studies by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
22 editions published between 1989 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
<DIV>In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally , Stanley Fish refuses the dilemma posed by this question and argues that while we can never separate our judgments from the contexts in which they are made, those judgments are nevertheless authoritative and even, in the only way that matters, objective. He thus rejects both the demand for an ahistorical foundation, and the conclusion that in the absence of such a foundation we reside in an indeterminate world. In a succession of provocative and wide-ranging chapters, Fish explores the implications of his position for our understanding of legal, literary, and psychoanalytic interpretation, the nature of professional and institutional culture, and the place of reason in a world that is rhetorical through and through.</div>

Save the world on your own time by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
9 editions published between 2008 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,032 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"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, the only goal appropriate to the academy is the transmission and advancement of knowledge. When teachers offer themselves as moralists, political activists, or agents of social change rather than as credentialed experts in a particular subject and the methods used to analyze it, they abdicate their true purpose. And yet professors now routinely bring their political views into the classroom and seek to influence the political views of their students. Those who do this will often invoke academic freedom, but Fish argues that academic freedom, correctly understood, is the freedom to do the academic job, not the freedom to do any job that comes into the professor's mind."--BOOK JACKET

John Skelton's poetry by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
15 editions published between 1965 and 1976 in English and held by 1,014 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The trouble with principle by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
11 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in English and held by 942 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The author explains that history and context determine a principle's content and power and that "intellectual and religious liberty ... are artifacts of the very partisan politics they supposedly transcend."--Jacket

The living temple : George Herbert and catechizing by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
8 editions published between 1978 and 1979 in English and Undetermined and held by 746 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Professional correctness : literary studies and political change by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
16 editions published between 1995 and 1999 in English and held by 737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In recent years the world of literary and cultural studies has been riven by a fierce debate between those who would transform interpretative work so that it directly engages with and influences political issues and those who fear that this would destroy the very essence of literary criticism." "In Professional Correctness Stanley Fish contends that neither the hope nor the fear are in fact realizable because, given the structures of power and hierarchy now in place, academic work - and especially literary studies - cannot reach an audience that might use it as the basis for effective political action. Proficiency in literary interpretation will be a ticket of entry to English departments and scholarly journals, but not to the arenas in which urgent social and political questions are being debated. Movements such as the new historicism, gender studies, or cultural studies can change the objects of their attention, change their vocabularies, change the scope of their claims, indeed change their very names, but nothing they do will bring them into closer contact with the larger structures they would alter or transform. The moral, Fish says, is that if you want to do work that resounds beyond the academy, get out of it: 'The academy - love it or leave it'."--BOOK JACKET

Seventeenth-century prose; modern essays in criticism by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
11 editions published in 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Milton in the age of Fish : essays on authorship, text, and terrorism ( Book )
7 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 401 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Rhetorically analyzing their verse within a gender-inclusive context, Women Writing of Divinest Things broadens our understanding of Renaissance women's poetry in literary history." "Scholars have long recognized that the culture of early modern England was deeply informed by rhetorical habits of speech and thought, yet until now there has been no full-length study of the role rhetoric played in poetry by women of the period. Women Writing of Divinest Things addresses this gap."--BOOK JACKET

The Stanley Fish reader by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 311 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Stanley Fish Reader assembles for the first time the best work of this brightest intellectual light. Essays spanning thirty years will attract anyone who has interests in Milton, the English Renaissance, law and literature, speech-act theory, Shakespeare, new pragmatism, first-amendment disputes, blind submission, rhetoric, anti-professionalism, and short people. This choice survey casts Fish's evolution into striking relief - what emerges is the transformation not of a personality but of a whole intellectual generation

Affirmative action the history of an idea ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1996 and 2005 in English and held by 305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Explores the historical roots of affimative action and the current debate over its usefulness. Looks at several different affirmative action programs today, from the Univ. of California, Berkeley, to the City of Chicago. Includes archival footage and features interviews with a wide array of academic scholars

The fugitive in flight : faith, liberalism, and law in a classic tv show by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
4 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 269 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Versions of antihumanism : Milton and others by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
11 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Stanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Milton. This book brings together his finest published work with brand new material on Milton and on other authors and topics in early modern literature. In his analyses of Renaissance texts, he meditates on the interpretive problems that confront readers and offers a sustained critique of historicist methods of interpretation. Intention, he argues, is key to understanding which pieces of historical data are relevant to literary criticism. Lucid, provocative, direct and inimitable, this new book from Stanley Fish is required reading for anyone teaching or studying Milton and early modern literary studies"--Provided by publisher

Quand lire c'est faire : l'autorité des communautés interprétatives by Stanley Eugene Fish ( Book )
2 editions published in 2007 in French and held by 50 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Affirmative action history of an idea ( )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 44 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Critics of affirmative action say that it pits Americans against each other and elevates the importance of race, gender, and ethnicity at the expense of hard work and merit. Supporters claim that discrimination remains pervasive in the U.S. and that the government must continue to play a role in aiding minorities and women. This program explores the historical roots of affirmative action and the debate over its usefulness. The program looks at several different affirmative action programs, from the University of California, Berkeley, where the university struggles with how to maintain diversity without minority preferences, to the city of Chicago, whose affirmative action programs for its police and fire departments have been challenged. The program includes archival footage and features interviews with a wide array of academic scholars

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