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Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities in Literary Theory
"Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities is a landmark 1980 collection of essays by literary theorist and legal scholar Stanley Fish that revolutionized contemporary literary criticism by arguing that the meaning of any text is not inherent on the printed page, but is instead generated by the shared interpretive strategies of specific reader communities. Introduction to Stanley Fish’s Critical Paradigm Published in 1980 by Harvard University Press, Is There a Text in This Class? brought together two decades of Stanley Fish’s evolving thoughts on reader-response criticism, pragmatism, and literary theory. The bo..."
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