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Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies
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...- $36.95
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How Milton Works
Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement begun in that work culminates in this book, the magnum opus of a...- $52.00
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
New York Times Bestseller"Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style" --Adam Haslett, Financial Times"A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language." --SlateIn this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist...- $14.99
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
New York Times Bestseller"Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style" --Adam Haslett, Financial Times"A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language." --SlateIn this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist...- $36.99
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
New York Times Bestseller"Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style" --Adam Haslett, Financial Times"A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language." --SlateIn this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist...- $41.99
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Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basic assumptions. He penetrates to the core of the modern debate about interpretation, explodes numerous misleading formulations, and offers a stunning...- $35.50
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Save the World on Your Own Time
What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? To bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social ills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In Save the World On Your...- $26.99
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Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition with a New Preface
In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party with or without knowing it, the other proclaiming (in the tradition of Addison and C....- $52.00
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The First: How to Think about Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump
From celebrated public intellectual, New York Times bestselling author, and "America's most famous professor" (BookPage) comes an urgent and sharply observed look at freedom of speech and the First Amendment offering a "nonpartisan take on what it does and doesn't protect and what kind...- $18.00
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The Fugitive in Flight: Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show
"In the 1990s when I was watching reruns of The Fugitive on the Arts and Entertainment Network twice a day, I couldn't take my eyes off it. . . . No one in The Fugitive ever relaxes as you watch and you can't relax...- $32.50
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The Trouble with Principle
Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers left and right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the trouble with...- $32.00
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There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too
In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and...- $37.99
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Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
Provocative essays from one of America's most important cultural critics Think Again gathers one hundred of the best of Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times essays, pieces that have generated passionate discussion and debate. Addressing controversies about such hot-button topics as atheism, affirmative action,...- $19.95
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Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education
From 1995 to 2013, Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times columns consistently generated passionate discussion and debate. In Think Again, he has assembled almost one hundred of his best columns into a thematically arranged collection with a substantial new introduction that explains his intention...- $29.95
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Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution
Through his columns in the New York Times and his numerous best-selling books, Stanley Fish has established himself as our foremost public analyst of the fraught intersection of academia and politics. Here Fish for the first time turns his full attention to one of...- $26.00
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Versions of Antihumanism: Milton and Others
Stanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Milton. This book brings together his finest published work with brand new material on Milton and on other authors and topics in early...- $38.99
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Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
"Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory" -- New York Times Book Review A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world...- $15.99
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