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Phillip J. Donnelly

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Description:This thesis examines how Stanley Fish presents an apologia for his theory of reader-response by privileging the notion of "faith." Although Fish ultimately rejects the interpretive approaches of Saint Augustine and John Milton, his own conception of "faith" is itself drawn from a conflation of Augustinian and Miltonic theological discourse. Fish argues that because all readers (as members of interpretive communities) must always employ some kind of interpretive strategy which actually constitutes their perceptions, the notion of an objective "fact" or "text" is illusory. Part of the strength in Fish's position derives from structuring each of his arguments in such a way that all attempts to challenge his specific literary or historical claims only serve to support his more general conclusion that such issues are always debatable. As a result, his arguments consistently end up making claims that are somehow independent of their specific literary or historical content. This thesis attempts an extremely "slow" reading of Fish's use of Augustine, in order to understand precisely how Fish extricates his position from any dependence upon the actual content of his own interpretation of Augustine. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rhetorical Faith: The Literary Hermeneutics of Stanley Fish (Els Monograph Series). To get started finding Rhetorical Faith: The Literary Hermeneutics of Stanley Fish (Els Monograph Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This thesis examines how Stanley Fish presents an apologia for his theory of reader-response by privileging the notion of "faith." Although Fish ultimately rejects the interpretive approaches of Saint Augustine and John Milton, his own conception of "faith" is itself drawn from a conflation of Augustinian and Miltonic theological discourse. Fish argues that because all readers (as members of interpretive communities) must always employ some kind of interpretive strategy which actually constitutes their perceptions, the notion of an objective "fact" or "text" is illusory. Part of the strength in Fish's position derives from structuring each of his arguments in such a way that all attempts to challenge his specific literary or historical claims only serve to support his more general conclusion that such issues are always debatable. As a result, his arguments consistently end up making claims that are somehow independent of their specific literary or historical content. This thesis attempts an extremely "slow" reading of Fish's use of Augustine, in order to understand precisely how Fish extricates his position from any dependence upon the actual content of his own interpretation of Augustine. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rhetorical Faith: The Literary Hermeneutics of Stanley Fish (Els Monograph Series). To get started finding Rhetorical Faith: The Literary Hermeneutics of Stanley Fish (Els Monograph Series), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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