Frases de Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish é um importante teórico literário e acadêmico estadunidense. Está entre os mais importantes críticos do poeta inglês John Milton no século XX, e é freqüentemente associado com o pós-modernismo. É professor emérito de Humanidades na Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University, professor de Direito na Florida International University, em Miami e deão emérito do College of Liberal Arts and Sciences da Universidade de Illinois em Chicago. Também lecionou na University of California em Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University e Duke University. Escreveu 10 livros e se descreve como um "anti-fundacionalista". Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Abril 1938
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Stanley Fish: Frases em inglês

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

Fonte: 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.”

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

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

Fonte: 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.”

Fonte: 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.”

Fonte: 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.”

Fonte: 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.”

Fonte: 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.”

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