Frasi di Stanley Fish

Stanley Eugene Fish è un insegnante, filosofo e critico letterario statunitense.

Stanley Fish è uno di più noti studiosi di teoria letteraria ed ermeneutica, a volte controverso, tuttavia molto imitato e spesso criticato. Ha avuto una lunga carriera universitaria insegnando materie diverse in molte università. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Aprile 1938
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Stanley Fish: Frasi in inglese

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

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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.”

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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.”

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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.”

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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.”

Stanley Fish

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.”

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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.”

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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?”

Stanley Fish

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.”

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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.”

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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.”

Stanley Fish

Origine: 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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