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Surprised by Sin
Fish, Stanley; Anwar, Nausheen
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Description for Surprised by Sin
Paperback. This text claims that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 552.
In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps, one proclaiming that Milton was of the devil's party, the other proclaiming that the poet's sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. The achievement of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Thirty years later the issues raised in Surprised by Sin continue ... Read more
In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps, one proclaiming that Milton was of the devil's party, the other proclaiming that the poet's sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. The achievement of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Thirty years later the issues raised in Surprised by Sin continue ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333625163
SKU
V9780333625163
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Reviews for Surprised by Sin
'Many think of Surprised by Sin as Stanley Fish's best book: not just provocative, but strategic, in directing attention to Milton's designs on his readers.' - Alastair Fowler, Times Literary Supllement