Stanley Fish

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Stanley Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar known for his work on reader-response criticism and the interpretation of texts.

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instanceOf human
legal scholar
literary theorist
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1938
educatedAt University of Pennsylvania
Yeshiva University NERFINISHED
employer Cardozo School of Law NERFINISHED
Duke University NERFINISHED
Florida International University NERFINISHED
University of Illinois at Chicago NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Milton studies
interpretation of texts
legal theory
literary theory
philosophy of law
postmodernism
reader-response criticism
rhetoric
hasWrittenFor Slate NERFINISHED
The Chronicle of Higher Education NERFINISHED
The New York Times NERFINISHED
knownFor public intellectual commentary on higher education and free speech
work on interpretation of legal texts
work on reader-response criticism
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement interpretive communities theory
reader-response theory NERFINISHED
notableIdea anti-foundationalism in law
interpretive communities
textual meaning as product of readers
notableWork Doing What Comes Naturally NERFINISHED
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One NERFINISHED
Is There a Text in This Class? NERFINISHED
Save the World on Your Own Time NERFINISHED
Surprised by Sin NERFINISHED
The Trouble with Principle NERFINISHED
There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too NERFINISHED
Winning Arguments NERFINISHED
occupation columnist
professor
placeOfBirth Providence, Rhode Island NERFINISHED
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
religion Judaism
sexOrGender male
spouse Jane Tompkins NERFINISHED

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