Stanley Eugene Fish (born 1938) is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is considered by his admittedly few admirers to be among the most important critics of the English poet John Milton in the 20th century. He is often associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Pro...
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Stanley Eugene Fish (born 1938) is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is considered by his admittedly few admirers to be among the most important critics of the English poet John Milton in the 20th century. He is often associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 10 books. Professor Fish has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University.
Fish did his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1962. He taught English at the University of California at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins...
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