Justifying belief : Stanley Fish and the work of rhetoric / Gary A. Olson ; foreword by Stanley Fish ; afterword by J. Hillis Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Gary A., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English philology--Study and teaching.

English philology.

Language and culture.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Criticism.

Rhetoric.

Fish, Stanley Eugene.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first in-depth study of Stanley Fish's nonliterary writings.

Contents:

""Justifying Belief""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Public Intellectuals and the Discipline of English Studies""; ""2. No Loss, No Gain: The Argument against Principle""; ""3. The Story of Rhetoric: Constructing the Ground Upon Which You Confidently Walk""; ""4. Fish Tales: A Conversation with ""The Contemporary Sophist""""; ""5. From Multiculturalism to Academic Freedom: The Case against Universalism""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""

""Q""""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-157) and index.

"The works of Stanley Fish": p. 159-173.

ISBN:

0-7914-8737-7

OCLC:

815477228