Gone Fishing

Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 12:52:10 -0600

AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
 
> BTW -- you gave me a reference to a Stanley Fish book -- one in which he
> described his Reader Response theory in terms of a community of readers.  Do
> you remember the title?
 
Fish did a series of lectures as a response to some evil, monoglossic,
antipluralist sentiments excreted by M.H. Abrams at a seminar in the
late 70's.  At least two particularly funny and smart essays came out
of the lectures--"Is There a Text in this Class" and "How to Recognize
a Poem When You See One."  Both are available in Fish's collection _Is
There a Text in this Class_, the subtitle of which is "The Authority
of Interpretive Communities."  The latter essay I specifically recall
mentioning interpretive communities.  

Unusually pleasant and easy to read, for the unitiate out there.  Here
is some essentially poststructuralist theory that you can appreciate
without rereading 12 times.  And now, I think it's about time we added
Fish to the FAQ.


-- 
Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu