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Stanley Fish

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April 19, 1938

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Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is often associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation, as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist.

He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 10 books. Professor Fish has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Duke University.

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Books by Stanley Fish

Average rating: 3.69 · 1,645 ratings · 217 reviews · 55 distinct works

	How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One 3.32 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities 3.65 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost 3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Save the World on Your Own Time 3.24 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too 3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	How Milton Works 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Trouble with Principle 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1978	My rating:

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“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
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“This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.”
― Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

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“Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.”
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