Self-Consuming Artifacts

Self-Consuming Artifacts

Author	Stanley Fish
Language	English
Genre	Literary criticism
Publisher	University of California Press
Publication date	1972
Publication place	United States
ISBN	978-0520027640

Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972, ISBN   978-0520027640) is book of literary criticism by American literary critic Stanley Fish. In it, Fish examines various English writers from the seventeenth century, including Sir Francis Bacon, ^[1] George Herbert, ^[2] John Bunyan, ^[3] and John Milton. Since it explores the reader's experience of reading the text, it can be considered an example of reader-response ^[4] criticism.

The book has been described variously as "influential", ^{[2] [5]} "a classic of scholarship". ^[6] and as one of the author's "two revolutionary books" ^[7]

References

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2. Mintz, Susannah (January 1998). "Unstrung Conversations: Herbert's Negotiations with God". Philological Quarterly.^{[ dead link ]}
3. Johnson, Galen (22 June 2002). "The Key in the Window: Marginal Notes in Bunyan's Narratives". Christianity and Literature. doi:10.1177/014833310205100413.
4. "Fish, Stanley". Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2007. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014– via HighBeam Research.
5. Epstein, William (1991). Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biography and Biographical Criticism. Purdue University Press. p. ix. ISBN   1557530181.
6. Robert C. Evans, ed. (2009). The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook. Continuum. p. 115. ISBN   978-0826498502.
7. Winchell, Mark (1996). Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism. University of Virginia Press. p. 355. ISBN   081391647X.