[lbo-talk] NYT: How much has French PoMo influenced US "intellectual life"?

[Robert Wrubel]

Fish, of course, built his reputation as an American post-modernist, even though his later book on Milton is pretty straightforward, old-fashioned literary criticism. You have to laugh at the virile language he uses to describe the cultural wars, as if these academic skirmishes were showdowns between hard-drinking Texas gunslingers.  And when he refers to the opposition as "denizens of the right", apparently he wants to see himself as somewhere on the left!

   

  David Lodge's Trading Places, reportedly modelled on Fish's transatlantic teaching career, shows him for the opportunist twit he was.

   

  BW

   

   

   

  
andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:

  
Guess the culture wars have a long half life.

--- Dennis Claxton 

   wrote:


> At 09:42 PM 4/10/2008, B. wrote:
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>http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/french-theory-in-america/?em&ex=1207886400&en=cf1c77be6b43527b&ei=5070
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> >
> >April 6, 2008,
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> >French Theory in America
> >by Stanley Fish
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> Holy Derrida, there's 599 entries in the comments
> section.
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