Rhetorical Faith: The Literary Hermeneutics of Stanley FishThis book focuses on how Stanley Fish presents am apologia for his theory of reader-response by linking his account of interpretive assumptions with the dynamics of "faith," or religious belief. |
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... criticism . He points out that although all per- ceptions are grounded in historical assumptions , because such a claim is itself " metacritical " it can have no bearing on any specific historical claims ( 247-48 ) . That is ...
... criticism . He points out that although all per- ceptions are grounded in historical assumptions , because such a claim is itself " metacritical " it can have no bearing on any specific historical claims ( 247-48 ) . That is ...
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... criticism is " political " ( or rhetorical , or debatable ) in this broader sense is to assert something so banal as to be without content because everything is political in that sense . Fish is more than willing to admit that literary ...
... criticism is " political " ( or rhetorical , or debatable ) in this broader sense is to assert something so banal as to be without content because everything is political in that sense . Fish is more than willing to admit that literary ...
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... Criticism is Like Virtue , " works in two ways : first to indicate the character of his indict- ment of the cultural studies claim to " make you good " ; but then to reflect also the quality of his own positive argument that literary ...
... Criticism is Like Virtue , " works in two ways : first to indicate the character of his indict- ment of the cultural studies claim to " make you good " ; but then to reflect also the quality of his own positive argument that literary ...
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according to Fish anti-formalism anti-formalist anti-foundationalism anti-foundationalist Areopagitica argu Artis Logicae attempt Augustine's On Christian Augustine's position Augustinian avoid basic belief caritas chapter Christian Doctrine claims Comes Naturally consciousness constituted criticism cultural studies debate depends Descartes dialectical dichotomy difference discourse distinction Doctrina Christiana DWCN earlier emphasis epistemology essay experience faith Fish's account Fish's argument Fish's position Fish's reading formal formalist foundationalism foundationalist human humility hypostasis idolatry inaccessible assumptions inescapable insistence interpretive assumptions interpretive community interpretive strategies ITTC John Milton knowledge logic ment Milton never notion objective objectivist objectivist epistemology Paradise Lost passage philosophy Platonic political precisely present primacy of interpretive Professional Correctness question Ramist Ramus rationalism rationalist reader reader-response theory reading of Augustine reason rejection rhetoric rule of charity Scripture self-awareness Self-Consuming Artifacts sense simply sola scriptura solipsism specific Stanley Fish temporal textual theological thinking tion Trans transcendent Trinity truth understanding