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Philip Fisher (author)

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Philip Fisher (born 1941) is an academic in English literature at Harvard University and an author.[1]

He was a 2003 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism winner for Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction.

Books

  • The Vehement Passions (2002)
  • Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction (1999)[2]
  • Wonder, the Rainbow and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences (1998)[3]
  • 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 (1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674838599.
  3. ^ Fisher, Philip (1998). Wonder, the rainbow, and the aesthetics of rare experiences. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674955625.