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Biography

Name: Stanley Eugene Fish
Variant Name: Stanley Fish, Stanley E. Fish, Stanley E(ugene) Fish
Birth Date: April 19, 1938
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Stanley Eugene Fish
5,516 words, approx. 18 pages
To say that Stanley Fish is among the most influential critics writing in English is not at all to say that he is followed by an admiring flock. Twice a pioneer in making critical possibilities available--first by rescuing affective criticism from the...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Stanley Fish Information
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Stanley Fish (born 1938) is a prominent American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is among the most important critics of the English poet John Milton in the 20th century, and is often associated...


News and Journals
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Modern Age
The school of Fish.(Stanley Fish)
09/22/2004: 2,887 words, approx. 10 pages
IN AN OP-ED PIECE entitled "Why We Built the Ivory Tower," published in The New York Times, Stanley Fish, a literary archon of the theory of deconstruction that has ravaged the academy for years, conveys some departing thoughts, after his nearly half century in...
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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
News and Views; Stanley Fish Reels in a School of Black Scholars
01/31/2001: 1,630 words, approx. 5 pages
In the academic world Stanley Fish is known as the Babe Ruth of literary studies. Now apparently the highest-paid university dean in the country, his fame began years ago when he brought to Johns Hopkins the best scholars in the then new field of...
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The New York Observer
Primaries? Who needs 'em!?
8/22/2007: 478 words, approx. 2 pages
A friend passed along a link to an interesting New York Times Select column from literary theorist Stanley Fish which handicaps the poll of potential running-mates for Hillary Clinton. This prompted two immediate reactions: (1) How much money has the Times lost on this silly...
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The New York Observer
Times\'d5 Rosenthal Is Glutton For Opinion
4/15/2007: 1,524 words, approx. 5 pages
more,” said Andrew Rosenthal, the New York Times editorial-page editor. Mr. Rosenthal was discussing the newspaper’s opinion content on the Web—whether from name-brand op-ed columnists or outside contributors, blogs or video. “We’ve got composers, astronomers—the guy from Queen,” Mr. Rosenthal said by phone...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Robert Stecker
5,674 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Stecker examines Fish's theoretical claims about the contextual modes of literary meaning and interpretation, as presented in Is There a Text in This Class; Stecker concludes that Fish's effort to assert the validity of interpretative assumptions as an alternative to relativism or foundationalism ultimately results in its own form of relativism.
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Critical Review by Richard Wolfheim
5,459 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following unfavorable review of Is There a Text in This Class?, Wolfheim finds contradictions and logical lapses in Fish's theory of literary interpretation.
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Critical Review by Cass R. Sunstein
4,298 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following review of There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too, Sunstein objects to Fish's brand of abstract pragmatism and his dismissal of all human claims as mere “politics” without distinction. Sunstein contends that Fish's theoretical notions pose self-defeating implications for free expression and educational reform on university campuses.
 


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