Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing#

by Stanley Fish

The Living George Herbert and Catechizing by Stanley Fish, published in 1978. "In this book Stanley Fish offers an answer to one of the more perplexing questions of English literary What are we to make of the title and organization of George Herbert's The Temple?" Hardcover with orignal jacket with light shelfwear to jacket.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1978

About the author

Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is often associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation, as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist.

He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 10 books. Professor Fish has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and Duke University.

Reviews

[J. Alfred · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stanley Fish does a good job of corralling various, contradictory streams of Herbertian criticism and showing how they can work together if we view the Temple as a catechism in a specifically Herbertain sense. The argument is of course brilliant and meticulously ordered, and then, because it's Fish, explodes itself into an argument about theory and the kind of metacompliance we need before effective communication can occur. It's one of those fundamentally strong arguments about a writer that will structure the way you think about that writer in the future. If you're into Herbert, you should read it, is what I'm trying to say.