[lbo-talk] Stanley Fish was Last Supper, in a leather harness

[Robert Wrubel]

I was a grad student at Berkeley when Fish was there. 
He came straight from Harvard and was actually younger
than me!  I was trying to be an old-fashioned literary
scholar, and he seemed to be undoing everything I was
working for, undercutting my whole approach.

I got definite pleasure later when the British
novelist (forget his name at the moment) satirized
Fish in *Changing Places*.  About a quarter century
after that I picked up a Fish book on Milton at a
library book sale, and was amazed to learn he was as
eloquent and perceptive about Milton as anyone!

BobW

--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> 
> 
> "Mr. WD" wrote:
> > 
> >
> > [although I find him obnoxious on many levels, I
> still have a lot of
> > admiration for Stanley Fish.  
> 
> That so precisely defines my response to Fish.
> Really really obnoxious
> but one keeps learning from some of his stuff.
> 
> Carrol
> 
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