Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Literary theorist of reader-response criticism
1938, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
United States
Stanley Fish is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Literary theorist of reader-response criticism
Fish is a Jewish American literary theorist and legal scholar best known for developing reader-response criticism and the concept of 'interpretive communities', which locate a text's meaning in the conventions shared by its readers. A prominent scholar of Milton and of the First Amendment, he ranks among the most-cited figures in the arts and humanities. He was born to a Jewish family in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Literary theorist of reader-response criticism
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
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