Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972, ISBN 978-0520027640) is book of literary criticism by American literary critic Stanley Fish.
In it, Fish examines various English writers from the seventeenth century, including Sir Francis Bacon,[1] George Herbert,[2] John Bunyan,[3] and John Milton.
Since it explores the reader's experience of reading the text, it can be considered an example of reader-response[4] criticism.
The book has been described variously as "influential",[2][5] "a classic of scholarship".
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