Published 1998
by Harvard University Press in Cambridge, Mass .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Stanley Fish. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR3562 .F5 1998 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | lxxiii, 361 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 361 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL691697M |
| ISBN 10 | 067485747X |
| LC Control Number | 97038854 |
Overview. In 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 Author: Stanley Fish. The achievement of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sinwas to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: Paradise Lostis a poem about how its readers came to be 5/5(1). 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. Surprised by Sin remains the one indispensable book on Milton. This dazzling, high-stakes work of mind taught a generation of readers how to read anew. And, lest we thought its rigorous injunctions had been dulled or blandly assimilated by the intervening years, /5().
The first edition of Surprised by Sin revised the critical landscape of Milton studies more significantly and more influentially than any other analysis of Paradise Lost in modern history. The second edition contains a substantial preface, not only an apologia but also a /5(). About this book. Introduction. Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin argues here that 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. Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost by Stanley Fish () Fish shows us just how seductive Satan is in John Milton's epic poem. Not only does he manage to seduce Adam and Eve, he also manages to seduces us readers. Surprised by Sin remains the one indispensable book on Milton. This dazzling, high-stakes work of mind taught a generation of readers how to read anew. Thirty years ago, Surprised by Sin initiated the modern age in Milton criticism/5(7).
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