Doing what comes naturally : change, rhetoric, and the practice of theory in literary and legal studies /
Fish, Stanley Eugene,
Doing what comes naturally : change, rhetoric, and the practice of theory in literary and legal studies / Stanley Fish. - Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, (c)1989. - x, 613 pages ; 24 cm.
Introduction: going down the anti-formalist road -- With the compliments of the author: Reflections of Austin and Derrida -- Why no one's afraid of Wolfgan Iser -- Working on the chain gang: interpretation in law and literature -- Wrong again -- Fish volume Fiss -- Change -- No bias, no merit: The case against blind submission -- Short people got no reason to live: reading irony -- Professional 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.
88026740
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Rhetoric.
Law--Language.
Semantics (Law)
PN441 / .D656 1989 PN441
Doing what comes naturally : change, rhetoric, and the practice of theory in literary and legal studies / Stanley Fish. - Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, (c)1989. - x, 613 pages ; 24 cm.
Introduction: going down the anti-formalist road -- With the compliments of the author: Reflections of Austin and Derrida -- Why no one's afraid of Wolfgan Iser -- Working on the chain gang: interpretation in law and literature -- Wrong again -- Fish volume Fiss -- Change -- No bias, no merit: The case against blind submission -- Short people got no reason to live: reading irony -- Professional 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.
88026740
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Rhetoric.
Law--Language.
Semantics (Law)
PN441 / .D656 1989 PN441