Philip Fisher (author)

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.