Doing what comes naturally : change, rhetoric, and the practice of theory in literary and legal studies / Stanley Fish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fish, Stanley Eugene.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Rhetoric.

Law--Language.

Law.

Semantics (Law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally, Stanley Fish refuses the dilemma posed by this question and argues that while we can never separate our judgments from the contexts in which they are made, those judgments are nevertheless authoritative and even, in the only way that matters, objective. He thus rejects both the dem

Contents:

Introduction: Going Down the Anti-Formalist Road

With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida

Why No One's Afraid of Wolfgang Iser

Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in Law and Literature

Wrong Again

Fish v. Fiss

Change

No Bias, No Merit: The Case Against Blind Submission

Short People Got No Reason to Live: Reading Irony

Profession Despise Thyself: Fear and Self-Loathing in Literary Studies

Anti-Professionalism

Transmuting the Lump: Paradise Lost, 1942-1979

Don't Know Much About the Middle Ages: Posner on Law and Literature

Consequences

Anti-Foundationalism, Theory Hope, and the Teaching of Composition

Still Wrong After All These Years

Dennis Martinez and the Uses of Theory

Unger and Milton

Critical Self-Consciousness, Or Can We Know What We're Doing?

Rhetoric

Force

Withholding the Missing Portion: Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]=593) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062338

9781283062336

128306233X

9780822381600

0822381605

OCLC:

850213925