M.H. Abrams

Key Theories of Stanley Fish

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on February 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

The Reader-Response Theorist, Stanley Fish (b. 1938), attempts to situate the reading process in a broader, institutional context. Fish’s earlier work, focusing on the reader’s experience of literary texts, included an important study of Milton, Surprised by Sin: The Reader… Read More ›

Hillis Miller’s Concept of Critic as Host

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on March 18, 2016 • ( 2 )

The prominent Yale critic, J. Hillis Miller’s The Critic as host could be viewed as a reply to M.H. Abrams The Deconstructive Angel, which he presented at a session of the Modern Language-Association in December 1976, criticizing deconstruction and the methods… Read More ›