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STANLEY FISH (1938 - )

Faculty Page (Florida International University)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Save the World on Your Own Time.  Oxford: OUP, 2008.
  • The Trouble With Principle.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.
  • Stanley Fish Reader.  Ed. H. Aram Veeser.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
  • There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.
  • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.
  • Is There a Text in this Class?  The Authority of Interpretive Communities.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.
• Edited Works:
  • Seventeenth-Century Prose: Modern Essays in Criticism.  Oxford: OUP, 1971.
• Selected Individual Works:
  • "Force."  Washington and Lee Law Review (): .
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  503-524.
  • "There is No Textualist Position."  San Diego Law Review 42.1 (2005): .
  • How Milton Works.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001.
  • Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.
  • "Truth and Toilets."  The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture.  Ed. Morris Dickstein.  Durham: Duke UP, 1998.
    • The Trouble With Principle.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001.  293-308.

  • "Play of Surfaces: Theory and the Law."  There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.  180-199.

  • "Almost Pragmatism: the Jurisprudence of Richard Posner, Richard Rorty and Donald Dworkin."  Pragmatism in Law and Society.  Ed. Michael Brint.  Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.

    • There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.  200-230.

  • "The Law Wishes to Have a Formal Existence."  The Fate of Law.  Ed. Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 1991.

    • There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.141-179.

  • "Being Interdisciplinary is So Very Hard to Do."  Profession 89.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1989.  15-22.

    • There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.  231-242.

  • "Commentary: the Young and the Restless."  The New Historicism.  Ed. H. Aram Veeser.  London: Routledge, 1989.  304-316.

    • There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.  243-256.

  • "Critical Self-Consciousness, or Can We Know What We're Doing."  Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  436-467.
  • "Rhetoric."  Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  471-502.
    • The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present.  Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.  New York: Bedford, 2000.  1609-1627.
    • Critical Terms for Literary Studies.  Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.  203-222.
  • "Comments from Outside Economics."  The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric.  Ed. McCloskey, Arjo Klamer, and Robert M. Solow.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  21-30.
  • "Don't Know Much about the Middle Ages: Posner on Law and Literature."  Yale Law Journal 97.5 (1988): 777-793.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  294-311.
  • "Unger and Milton."  Duke Law Journal 5 (1988): 975-1012.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  399-435.

  • "Anti-Foundationalism, Theory Hope, and the Teaching of Composition."  The Current Criticism.  Ed. C. Loeb and V. Lokke.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.

    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  342-355.

  • "Change."  South Atlantic Quarterly 86 (1987): 423-44.

    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  141-160.

  • "Dennis Martinez and the Uses of Theory."  Yale Law Journal 96.8 (1987): 1773-1800.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  372-398.
  • "Still Wrong After All These Years."  Law and Philosophy 6.3 (1987): 401-418.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  356-371.
  • "Consequences."  Critical Inquiry 11.3 (1985): 433-458.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  315-341.
  • "Fish v. Fiss."  Stanford Law Review 36.6 (1984): 1325-1347.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  120-140.
  • "Profession Despise Thyself: Fear and Self-Loathing in Literary Studies."  Critical Inquiry 10.2 (1983): 349-364.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  197-214.
  • "Wrong Again."  Texas Law Review 62 (1983): 229-316.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  103-119.
  • "With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida."  Critical Inquiry 8.4 (1982): 693-721.
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  37-67.
  • "Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in Law and Literature."  Critical Inquiry 9 (1982): .
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  87-102.
  • "Why No One's Afraid of Wolfgang Iser."  Diacritics 11.1 (1981): .
    • Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.  68-86.
  • "Demonstration versus Persuasion: Two Models of Critical Activity."  Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  356-371.
    • Twentieth Century Literary Theory: an Introductory Anthology.  Ed. Vassilis Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1986.  350-362.
  • "How to Recognise a Poem When You See One."  Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  322-337.
  • "Is There a Text in this Class?"  Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  303-321.
    • Critical Theory Since 1965.  Ed. Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle.  Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 1986.  525-534.
    • Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.
     3rd Ed. edited by Charles Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991.  678-693.
  • "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable."  Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  338-355.
  • "Normal Circumstances, Literal Language, Direct Speech Acts, the Ordinary, the Everyday, the Obvious, What Goes Without Saying, and Other Special Cases."  Critical Inquiry 4 (1978): 625-644.
    • Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  268-292. 
    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  1199-1209.
  • The Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1978.
  • "How to do Things With Austin and Searle: Speech-Act Theory and Literary Criticism."  MLN 91.5 (1976): 983-1025. 
    • Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  197-245. 
  • "Interpreting the Variorum."  Critical Inquiry 2 (1976): 465-485. 
    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001.  2071-2088.
    • The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.  Ed. David H. Richter.  Boston: Bedford, 1998.  977-989.
    • Modern Criticism and Theory: a Reader.  Ed. David Lodge.  London: Longman, 1988.  311-329.
    • Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  147-173.
    • Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Structuralism.  Ed. Jane Tompkins.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.  164-184.
  • "How Ordinary is Ordinary Language?"  New Literary History 5 (1973): 41-54. 
    • Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  97-111.
  • Self-Consuming Artifacts: the Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1972.  Rpt. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998.
  • "Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics."  New Literary History 2.1 (1970): 123-162. 
    • Is There a Text in this Class?.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.  21-67.
    • Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Structuralism.  Ed. Jane Tompkins.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.  70-100. 
    • Self-Consuming Artifacts: the Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1972.  Rpt. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1998.  383-428.
  • Surprised by Sin: the Reader in Paradise Lost.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1967.
  • John Skelton's Poetry.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1965.
• Selected Interviews:
  • "Fish Tales: a Conversation with 'the Contemporary Sophist.'"  Journal of Advanced Composition 12.2 (1992): .
    • There's No Such Thing As Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.  281-307.

On-Line:

• Archives:
  • All in the Game Column Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Think Again New York Times Blog
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Don't Blame Relativism ()
  • There's No Such Thing as Free Speech ()
  • What Should Colleges Teach?"  Think Again Blog New York Times:
    • Part 3  September 7, 2009
    • Part 1  August 27, 2009
  • "God Talk."  Think Again Blog New York Times:
    • Part 2 May 17, 2009
    • Part 1 May 3, 2009
  • "French Theory in America."    Think Again Blog New York Times:
    • Part 2 April 20, 2008
    • Part 1 April 6, 2008
  • "Will the Humanities Save  Us?"    Think Again Blog New York Times:
    • Part 2 January 13, 2008
    • Part 1 January 6, 2008
  • There is No Textualist Position (2005)
  • Theory's Hope Critical Inquiry 30.2 (2003)
  • "Say It Ain't So" Chronicle Of Higher Education June 21, 2002
  • A Weeklong Electronic Diary Slate Magazine January 2000
  • "Why No One's Afraid of Wolfgang Iser" (1981):
    • JSTOR Version
  • "How to Recognise a Poem When You See One" (1980):
    • Bamberg Version
  • "Interpreting the Variorum" (1976):
    • University of Colorado Version
  • "Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics" (1970):
    • University of Colorado Version
• Selected Interviews:
  • Fish to Profs: Stick to Teaching.  Interview with Andy Guess.  Inside Higher Ed July 1, 2008

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Olson, Gary A., and Lynn Worsham, eds.  Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Cain, William E.  "Constraints and Politics in the Literary Theory of Stanley Fish."  Bucknell Review 28 (1980): .
  • Culler, Jonathan.  "Stanley Fish and the Righting of the Reader."  Diacritics 5.1 (1975): 26-31.
    • The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981.  119-131.
  • Donnelly, Phillip J.  Rhetorical Faith: the Literary Hermeneutics of Stanley Fish.  Victoria: U of Victoria Department of English, 2000.
  • Freund, Elizabeth.  "Literature in the Reader: Stanley Fish and Affective Stylistics."  The Return of the Reader: Reader-Response Criticism.  London: Methuen, 1987.  90-111.
  • Holland, Norman.  "Stanley Fish, Stanley Fish."  Genre 10 (1977): 433-441.
  • Horton, Susan R.  "The Experience of Stanley Fish's Prose or the Critic as Self-Creating, Self-Consuming Artificer."  Genre 10 (1977): 443-453.
  • Lentricchia, Frank.  "Uncovering History and the Reader: Structuralism."  After the New Criticism.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.  102-154.
  • Mailloux, Steven J.  "Truth or Consequences: on Being against Theory."  Critical Inquiry 9 (1983 ): .
  • Mailloux, Steven J.  "Evaluation and Reader Response Criticism: Values Implicit in Affective Stylistics."  Style 10 (1976): 329-343.
  • Mailloux, Steven J.  "Stanley Fish's 'Interpreting the Variorum': Advance or Retreat?"  Critical Inquiry 3 (1976): 183-190.
  • McCormick, Kathleen.  "Swimming Upstream with Stanley Fish."  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 44 (1985): 67-76.
  • Moore, Stephen D.  "Negative Hermeneutics, Insubstantial Texts: Stanley Fish and the Biblical Interpreter."  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 54.4 (1986).  707-719.
  • Olson, Gary A.  Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
  • Ray, William.  "Stanley Fish: Supersession and Transcendence."  Literary Meaning: from Phenomenology to Deconstruction.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.  152-169.

On-Line:

• Berkowitz, Peter: Towering Ivories: Stanley Fish and his Ideal of the American University Weekly Standard 14.8 (2008)

• Campos, Paul: The Atheist's Dilemma Rocky Mountain News February 20, 2008

• Diffily, Anne: Back to Basics with Stanley Fish Today at Brown November 5, 2008

• Eagleton, Terry: The Estate Agent London Review of Books March 2, 2000

• Kellman, Steven G.: Education for Education's Sake Chronicle of Higher Education September 5, 2008

• Knight, Christopher: Stanley Fish and the Place of Criticism Electronic Book Review September 1, 1996

• Lang, Chris: The Reader-Response Theory of Stanley Fish

• McLemee, Scott: Gone Fishing Inside Higher Ed July 21, 2005

• Olson, Gary: Fish Tales: an Interview with Stanley Fish

• Schneider, Alison: Stanley Fish, as a College Dean, Makes a Big Splash and Spares no Expense Chronicle February 4, 2000

• Van Engen, Abram: Teaching Life, with Restraint Books and Culture August 11, 2008

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

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• Wilson, James Matthew: The Treasonous Clerk Stanley Fish and the Lasting Professoriate First Principles February 20, 2009

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• Niemela, Kyosti: Stanley Fish Resources Center

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