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...Joseph H. Summers Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 1 Stanley E. Fish. Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1972. xiv + 432 pp. $12.50. STANLEY...

... blun- ders and recounts God’s revelations so that we are privy to the power of di- vine correction. In Self-consuming Artifacts Fish recognized Herbert’s speaker, but here he thinks only about the reader, leaving a critical gap in his reading of The Temple and imposing serious limits...

...ILONA BELL FISH STANLEY. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1978. ix + 201 pp. $11.50. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 4 08 K EV I E W S The Living Temple: George Herbert...

... honed by years of habit and constitutive of “the ordinary science and everyday brilliance of the discipline itself” (87). The sole negative example of close reading, in the final chapter, is reserved for an older white man everyone loves to hate: Stanley Fish. Unlike the modestly virtuosic readings...

... every traveler of his day, Herman Melville’s Murdi (1849) spreads before the reader’s eyes a remarkable succession of sharks, devilfish, flying fish, blackfish, algerines, killer and thrasher whales (Chapter XIII) , pilot fish, rays, remoras (Chapter XVIII) , swordfish (Chap- ter XXXII...

... thought, and to the manner in which that history has been not simply recorded but made by the ver- bal power of superior minds in the service of something larger than themselves. I propose here to challenge an argument recently made by Stanley Fish, under a title typical of Fish in its...

..., my selfhood. In the “Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish” chapter in Mob-Dick (89), Melville ridiculed Anglo-American property law as an exercise of raw power. A Fast-Fish on the high seas, it turns out, belongs to anyone who can keep it. But the same thing is true of a Loose-Fish. It, too...

...Albert C. Labriola How Milton Works . By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001. vii + 616 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Har- vard University Press...

... is the nature of their writing itself, our concern with them is in any case inescapably 'TOMScorn. Dunbar: A Critical Exposition of the Poems. New Yorlc: Barnes & Noble, 1966. ix + 389 pp. $10.00. STANLEYEUGENE FISH. John SKeZton's Poetry. New Haven and London: Yale University Pm,Yale...

...Geraldo U. de Sousa From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England . By Douglas A. Brooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2000. xviii + 293 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass...

...Kate Rigby The Song of the Earth . By Jonathan Bate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii + 335 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Har- vard University Press, 2001. vii + 616 pp...

...Ania Loomba En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives . By Sangeeta Ray. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. viii + 198 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press...

...Joan Ramon Resina The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture . By Paul Julian Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii+ 206 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press...

...Jon Erickson Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect . By Hayden White. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xii + 205 pp. © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Reviews How Milton Works. By Stanley Fish. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Har- vard University...

... pleasure. Explain- ing that he did not yet feel personally involved, Wordsworth uses, among other analogies, the simile that he moved among those fighting for liberty “as a fish pursues / Its business, in its proper element” (698-99; 1805 text). In a long paragraph Friedman probes the fish...