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Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost
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Stanley Fish
In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party with or without knowing it, the other proclaiming (in the tradition of Addison and C. S. Lewis) that the poet's sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him.
The achievement of Stanley Fish's "
...morePaperback, Second Edition, 440 pages
Published
March 15th 1998
by Harvard University Press
(first published May 1972)
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So one of the things I discovered quite by accident, mainly due to Matthew Sweet's "Sick of Myself", was post-modernism.
Luckily enough, at the time, Slick Willy told us that "it depends on what the meaning of is is".
I also was following the "Sokal affair"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affai...
All in all, this kind of clicked with how the views of ideas such as Jefferson being a slave holder, the Pilgrims being nothing but invading...more
Luckily enough, at the time, Slick Willy told us that "it depends on what the meaning of is is".
I also was following the "Sokal affair"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affai...
All in all, this kind of clicked with how the views of ideas such as Jefferson being a slave holder, the Pilgrims being nothing but invading...more
Whether Fish is right or wrong, his theory of what Milton intended (in his desire to *educate* the English by his poems) gives me a glass through which to re-examine the poems.
Descriptive language would probably fail me: I gave five stars to Fish's "How Milton Works" and this is simply better than that. It is perhaps the best work of sustained criticism I've ever come across.
If one is a Milton fan, one must know this book.
If one is a Milton fan, one must know this book.
Fishy stuff, this.
I just had the grand opportunity and great pleasure to quote from this book and do that always fun [sic]-ing thing. How pleasant to be arch with someone as arch as he.
Also: he was a rude customer and bad tipper. So nyah, nyah.
I just had the grand opportunity and great pleasure to quote from this book and do that always fun [sic]-ing thing. How pleasant to be arch with someone as arch as he.
Also: he was a rude customer and bad tipper. So nyah, nyah.
Fish is the only person who has ever made me remotely interested in Milton. He offers a fascinating explanation for the structure and function of Paradise Lost.
I haven't read the whole book, but many excerpts. Fish is amazing.
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Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He is often associated with postmodernism, at times to his irritation, as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist.
He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami,...more
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He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a Professor of Law at Florida International University, in Miami,...more
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