Self-Consuming Artifacts
The Experience of Seventeenth Century Literature

by Stanley Fish

48 pages / $22.50x Paper / appendix, index
ISBN 0-8207-0298-6

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This book, originally published in the mid-1970s, remains the foremost theoretical statement and pratical criticism of seventeenth century texts from the standpoint of reader response. The manifesto formulated by Stanley Fish and the applicability that he demonstrates by close readings are of even more importance today than they were, perhaps, when first introduced more than three decades ago. In present day criticism, in the aftermath of one theoretical trend after another, the enduring value and validity of reader response criticisim (in theory and practice) come to the fore, particulary as practiced by Fish. Self-Consuming Artifacts provides a framework for theory andpractice that may and should be assimilated of other eras and cultures.

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STANLEY E. FISH is Arts and Science Professor of English at Duke University and the executive director of Duke University Press. His distinguished career has included the publication of many books on literary studies and the teaching of literature, including Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change, Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies, and Is There a Text in this Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities.

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Self-Consuming Artifacts The Experience of Seventeenth Century Literature

by Stanley Fish

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Self-Consuming Artifacts
The Experience of Seventeenth Century Literature