The Stanley Fish Reader / Edition 1

by H. A. Veeser

Overview

The Stanley Fish Reader assembles for the first time the best work of this brightest intellectual light.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631204381
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/26/1999
Series:	Wiley Blackwell Readers
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

H. Aram Veeser is Associate Professor of English at City College, New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Not so much a Teaching as an Intangling: Headnote by Joan S. Bennett.

2. Is There a Text in this Class? Headnote by Gerald Graff.

3. With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida: Headnote by Stephen D. Moore.

4. Consequences: Headnote by Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

5. Rhetoric: Headnote by Stephen Mailloux.

6. There's no Such Thing as Free Speech: Headnote by Judith Butler.

7. The Law Wishes to Have a Formal Existence: Headnote by Judith Roof.

8. The Young and the Restless: Headnote by Jonathan Goldberg.

9. Why Literary Criticism is Like Virtue: Headnote by Rick Perlstein.

10. No Bias, No Merit: The Case Against Blind Submission: Headnote by Amitava Kumar.

11. Anti-Professionalism: Headnote by Bruce Robbins.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

Gerald Graff

Gerald Graff

Fish's contribution to our intellectual life has been enormous. Literary criticism will never be the same after Fish's demonstration that interpreters run in packs.

Editorial Reviews

"Should you read The Stanley Fish Reader? Absolutely. With care and caring. . . . Read the book."

Jurist

From the Publisher

Should you read The Stanley Fish Reader? Absolutely. With care and caring. . . Read the book.

.. Jurist