Stanley Fish on Interpretive Communities

Stanley Fish on Interpretive Communities Give a thoughtful reading–including a careful rereading–to the excerpt in the file below. Does it consist of selections from Is There a Text in This Class? By Stanley Fish.

Stanley Fish on Interpretive Communities
Stanley Fish on Interpretive Communities

The reading is longer (~25 pages) and rather more complex. Give yourself plenty of time to read and digest it. You DO NOT have to write an essay. Instead, answer the following question in a few sentences each:

  1. How does Fish understand interpretation to be the result of expectations and assumptions produced by the communities of which we are a part? Use his theory to explain the reaction of his religious poetry class to the list of authors’ names left over on the board from a previous class.
  2. How is this process of interpretation transparent to us (this is, we don’t know we’re doing it)?
  3. What does Fish mean by his understanding that there is no “real” or “correct” interpretation inherent within a word, phrase, or poem? How does he justify or prove this assertion?
  4. According to Fish, does this process of constructed interpretation mean that any interpretation whatsoever (of a poem, for example) is possible and valid?

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