Stanley Fish Quotes

American literary theorist and lawyer (born 1938)

Stanley Eugene Fish (born 19 April 1938) is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 12 books.

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Alternative Names: Stanley Eugene Fish • Stanley E. Fish

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Literary interpretation, like virtue, is its own reward. I do it because I like the way I feel when I'm doing it.

The structure of a fully articulated profession is such that those who enter its precincts will find that the basic decisions, about where to look, what to do, and how to do it, have already been made.