Doing What Comes Naturally (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Fish
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary and legal theory
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Literature, Writing, Law or legislation, Novelists, Feminism, Criticism, Judges, Constitutional law, Intellect
Something has happened in the quiet world of literary criticism. The signs are everywhere. A string of satiric novels by David Lodge and others have made the zany new vocabularies and conference goings—on of literary theorists into successful middle-brow entertainment. The rise of a new criticism influenced by feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist, and post- structuralist theories has also converged at a number of points with the interests of the mass-circulation press. Under headings such as “the battle over the canon,” newspaper articles around the country have...
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