tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post7106451632858174222..comments2024-01-01T20:33:52.554-08:00Comments on a moon, worn as if it had been a shell: Paradise Lost and RegainedElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-65729592024659574052008-10-28T09:00:00.000-07:002008-10-28T09:00:00.000-07:00I was at Carolina when Fish was at Duke (is he sti...I was at Carolina when Fish was at Duke (is he still there?)and remember his early "controversies."Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-12561072291833015472008-10-28T07:04:00.000-07:002008-10-28T07:04:00.000-07:00I thought Fish's column was great, too! I've been ...I thought Fish's column was great, too! I've been passing it around to my friends. He was a Renaissance scholar before he decided to get a law degree, and I really liked his scholarly work: he and his wife developed theories of reading based on reader response balanced against authorial intent. His theoretical statement on reading, as follows, is one of my favorite things: "Literature is a kinetic art, but the physical form it assumes prevents us from seeing its essential nature, even though we so experience it."jeneva22https://www.blogger.com/profile/14796890614666454443noreply@blogger.com