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Is there a text in this class? : The authority of interpretive communities /

by Fish, Stanley Eugene.
Published by : Harvard University Press, (Cambridge, Mass. :) Physical details: viii, 394 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0674467264 Subject(s): Criticism. Year: 1980
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Book Book AUM Main Library English Collections Hall 801.95 F532 (Browse Shelf) Available 20170201

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Literature in the reader : affective stylistics -- 2. What is stylistics and why are they saying such terrible things about it? -- 3. How ordinary is ordinary language? -- 4. What it's like to read L'Allegro and Il Penseroso -- 5. Facts and fictions : a reply to Ralph Rader -- 6. Interpreting the Variorum -- 7. Interpreting "Interpreting the Variorum" -- 8. Structuralist homiletics -- 9. How to do things with Austin and Searle : speech-act theory and literary criticism -- 10. What is stylistics and why are they saying such terrible things about it? Part II -- 11. Normal circumstances and other special cases -- 12. A reply to John Reichert -- 13. Is there a text in this class? -- 14. How to recognize a poem when you see one -- 15. What makes an interpretation acceptable? -- 16. Demonstration vs. persuasion : two models of critical activity.

A collection of essays concerning language, literature, reading, writing and the reader.

Also issued online.

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