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 NERFINISHED
employer Cardozo School of Law NERFINISHED
Duke University NERFINISHED
Florida International University NERFINISHED
Johns Hopkins University NERFINISHED
University of California, Berkeley
University of Illinois at Chicago NERFINISHED
familyName Fish NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Milton studies
interpretive theory
law and literature
literary theory
pragmatism
reader-response criticism
rhetoric
genre cultural criticism
legal theory
literary criticism
givenName Stanley NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
How Milton Works NERFINISHED
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities NERFINISHED
Save the World on Your Own Time NERFINISHED
Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost NERFINISHED
The Trouble with Principle NERFINISHED
There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It’s a Good Thing, Too NERFINISHED
Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn’t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom NERFINISHED
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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