Books written by Stanley Eugene Fish

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  The Trouble with Principle

  The author explains that history and context determine a principle's content and power and that "intellectual and religious liberty ... are artifacts of the very partisan politics they supposedly transcend."--Jacket.

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  How Milton Works

  Encountering the great poet on his own terms, engaging his equally distinguished admirers and detractors, this book moves a 300-year debate about the significance of Milton's verse to a new level.

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  There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too

  A consideration of the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties.

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  Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost

  Fish has reconciled the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis.

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  Self-consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-century Literature

  Self-consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-century Literature

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  Versions of Antihumanism: Milton and Others

  performed by the wanton troopers; perhaps the “short time” (52) when Nymph and fawn enjoyed a love in “play” would give way to the red and white carnal love to which her half-conscious blushes already point. It is significant that the ...

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  Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change

  In recent years, the world of literary and cultural studies has been riven by a fierce debate between those who would transform interpretative work and those who fear that their work would destroy the very essence of literary criticism.

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  Surprised by Sin: The Reader in "Paradise Lost."

  Surprised by Sin: The Reader in "Paradise Lost."