A BRIEF HISTORY OF
LITERARY THEORY X

By Chris Lang

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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______ A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity.

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Fish, Stanley E. "Interpreting the Variorum." In Reader-Response Criticism, ed. Jane P. Tompkins, 164-184. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

______ "Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics." In Reader-Response Criticism, ed. Jane P. Tompkins, 70-100. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

______. "Anti-Professionalism." New Literary History 17 (1985): 89-108.

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______. The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description with Special Reference to Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans and Exeter: Paternoster, 1980.

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_______. Mapping the Maze: Introducing the Postmodern World. 1994 Kenneth Kantzer Lectures. Deerfield, Ill.:Rolfing Library, 1994. Cassette tape.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On Certainty. ed., G.E.M. Anscombe, New York: Harper Torch Books, 1972.

______. Philosophical Investigations. trans., G.E.M. Anscombe, New York: Macmillan, 1958.

Worthen, J. F. "On the Matter of the Text." University of Toronto Quarterly 60 (Spring 1991):337-53.


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