Postmodern sophistry : Stanley Fish and the critical enterprise / edited by Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham ; afterword by Stanley Fish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olson, Gary A., 1954-

Worsham, Lynn, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fish, Stanley Eugene.

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Criticism.

United States.

History.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Postmodernism--United States.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

viii, 312 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2004]

Summary:

Fifteen prominent scholars from a range of academic disciplines--legal studies, critical legal studies, political science, Jewish studies, rhetoric, and literary studies--explore various aspects of cultural and literary critic Stanley Fish's work. They examine Fish's understanding of how interpretation functions, the various philosophical issues that Fish has addressed or failed to address in his work, and the political consequences of Fish's thought. Stanley Fish responds to the ideas put forth in this book in a detailed Afterward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791462137

OCLC:

54065298