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'''Philip Fisher''' (born 1941) is the Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at [[Harvard University]] and an author.<ref>{{cite web|title=Department of English Faculty|url=http://english.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/fisher/|website=Harvard University|accessdate=13 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction|last=Fisher|first=Philip|publisher=Harvard University Press, Second Edition|year=1999|isbn=0674004094|location=|pages=Back Cover|quote=|via=}}</ref>
'''Philip Fisher''' (born 1941) is the Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at [[Harvard University]] and an author.<ref>{{cite web|title=Department of English Faculty|url=http://english.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/fisher/|website=Harvard University|accessdate=13 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction|last=Fisher|first=Philip|publisher=Harvard University Press, Second Edition|year=1999|isbn=0674004094|location=|pages=Back Cover|quote=}}</ref>


He was a co-winner of the [[Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism]] in 2000 for his book, ''Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2000/april/0405capote.html|title=Harvard critics Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher share 2000 Capote Award at UI |website=University News Service - The University of Iowa|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref>
He was a co-winner of the [[Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism]] in 2000 for his book, ''Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2000/april/0405capote.html|title=Harvard critics Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher share 2000 Capote Award at UI |website=University News Service - The University of Iowa|access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref>

Revision as of 03:46, 27 December 2020

Philip Fisher (born 1941) is the Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University and an author.[1][2]

He was a co-winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2000 for his book, Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction.[3]

He graduated from Harvard University with a M.A. in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1971. He earned an A.B. in 1963 from the University of Pittsburgh.[4]

Books

  • The Vehement Passions (2002)
  • Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction (1999)[5]
  • Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998)[6]
  • Making and Effacing Art (1991)
  • Hard Facts (1986)
  • Making Up Society (1981)

References

  1. ^ "Department of English Faculty". Harvard University. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  2. ^ Fisher, Philip (1999). Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction. Harvard University Press, Second Edition. pp. Back Cover. ISBN 0674004094.
  3. ^ "Harvard critics Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher share 2000 Capote Award at UI". University News Service - The University of Iowa. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  4. ^ "Department of English Faculty". Harvard University. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  5. ^ Fisher, Philip (1999). Still the new world : American literature in a culture of creative destruction (1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674838599.
  6. ^ Fisher, Philip (1998). Wonder, the rainbow, and the aesthetics of rare experiences. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674955625.