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Philip Fisher (author)

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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.[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

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  • 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

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  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.