Stanley Fish cytaty

Stanley Fish – amerykański historyk i teoretyk literatury, współtwórca teorii rezonansu czytelniczego, autor klasycznych studiów o Miltonie, teoretyk prawa.

Fish zrobił doktorat na Yale University, następnie pracował na University of California, Berkeley i Johns Hopkins University. W latach 1986-1998 był profesorem na Duke University. Następnie przeniósł się na University of Illinois at Chicago, gdzie pracował do 2005 r., kiedy to został zatrudniony na Florida International University.

✵ 19. Kwiecień 1938
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“The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 10, Sentences That Are About Themselves (Aren't They All?), p. 137

“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 42

“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 37

“They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence.”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 9, Last Sentences, p. 130

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

Interview by Mark Bauerlein, " A Solitary Thinker https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Solitary-Thinker/127464," The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15, 2001

“No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 2, Why You Don't Find The Answer In Strunk And White, p. 17

“Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 38

“Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?”

Epilogue, p. 160
How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)

“The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 8, First Sentences, p. 99

“Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 1, Why Sentences?, p. 2

“It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.”

Źródło: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011), Chapter 3, It's Not The Thought That Counts, p. 26

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