Stanley Fish

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1. Stanley Fish

   Author of Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities, There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too, How Milton Works

2. Jacques Derrida

   Author of Of Grammatology, Dissemination, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning & the New International

3. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Essays on Heidegger and Others, Truth and Progress

4. Michel Foucault

   Author of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, The order of things: an archaeology of the human sciences, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

5. Roland Barthes

   Author of S/Z: An Essay, The Pleasure of the Text, Image-Music-Text

6. Jonathan Culler

   Author of On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism, Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

7. Kenneth Burke

   Author of A Rhetoric of Motives, A Grammar of Motives, The Philosophy of Literary Form

8. Wayne C. Booth

   Author of The Rhetoric of Fiction, The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction, Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent (Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature ; V. 5)

9. Mikhail Bakhtin

   Author of The Dialogic Imagination: Four essays by M.M. Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

10. Stephen Greenblatt

    Author of Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, Hamlet in Purgatory, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (New Historicism, Studies in Cultura

11. Fredric Jameson

    Author of The Political Unconscious, Late Marxism: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic, Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist

12. Paul de Man

    Author of Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism, Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, The Resistance to Theory

13. Harold Bloom

    Author of Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation, A Map of Misreading: With a New Preface

14. Northrop Frye

    Author of Anatomy of Criticism, Fearful Symmetry, Fables Of Identity: Studies In Poetic Mythology

15. Terry Eagleton

    Author of Literary Theory: An Introduction, The Ideology of the Aesthetic, William Shakespeare (Rereading Literature)

16. Alasdair MacIntyre

    Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues (The Paul Carus Lectures)

17. Frank Kermode

    Author of Shakespeare's language, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (with a New Epilogue), The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

18. Walter Benjamin

    Author of Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926 (Walter Benjamin), Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940, The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940

19. Jürgen Habermas

    Author of The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought), Knowledge and Human Interests

20. John Rawls

    Author of Political Liberalism, The Law of Peoples, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy