Category Archives: Fish, Stanley
Classrooms and Correctness
David Denby discusses his book Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World. Stanley Fish discusses his new book, Professional Correctness, which is an account of literary studies and political change. 852 … Continue reading
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Stanley Steamers
A discussion of why academics love to suffer and why gays belong in the military. 679 – Stanley Steamers
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Cultural Conflicts
Stanley Fish and Dinesh D’Souza discuss their recent series of debates about cultural canons and the direction of American education in the 1990s. 626 – Cultural Conflicts
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There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech
Stanley Fish explains why he thinks there is no such thing as free speech and why he thinks that’s a good thing. His article about free speech recently appeared in the Boston Review. 614 – There’s No Such Thing As … Continue reading
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Doing What Comes Naturally
Stanley Fish discusses literary and leagl theory, the writings of John Milton, and American education, which are among the topics in his collection of essays, Doing What Comes Naturally (Duke University Press, 1989). 502 – Doing What Comes Naturally
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Convergence in Crisis
Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson discuss a conference at Duke University in 1988 entitled Convergence in Crisis: Narratives of the History of Theory, which focused on the disciplines of history, literary studies, and cultural studies. At the time of this interview, Fish, … Continue reading
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