Stanley Fish: American literary theorist

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Stanley Fish is a prominent American literary theorist known for his work in reader-response criticism and the interpretation of legal and literary texts.

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instanceOf human
legal scholar
literary theorist
academicDegree PhD in English literature
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt University of Pennsylvania
Yeshiva University
employer Cardozo School of Law
Duke University
Florida International University
Johns Hopkins University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Illinois at Chicago
familyName Fish
fieldOfWork Milton studies
interpretive theory
law and literature
literary theory
pragmatism
reader-response criticism
rhetoric
genre cultural criticism
legal theory
literary criticism
givenName Stanley
knownFor analysis of legal interpretation
arguments about free speech
reader-response criticism
theory of interpretive communities
work on John Milton
movement interpretive communities theory
reader-response criticism
name Stanley Fish
notableIdea interpretive communities
text meaning as product of interpretation
notableWork Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies
How Milton Works
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Save the World on Your Own Time
Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost
The Trouble with Principle
There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too
Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn’t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
occupation legal scholar
literary theorist
university teacher
positionHeld Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago
professor of English
professor of law
sexOrGender male
writingLanguage English

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