Versions of Antihumanism: Milton and Others

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Synopsis
Stanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Milton. This book brings together his finest published work with brand new material on Milton and on other authors and topics in early modern literature. In his analyses of Renaissance texts, he meditates on the interpretive problems that confront readers and offers a sustained critique of historicist methods of interpretation. Intention, he argues, is key to understanding which pieces of historical data are relevant to literary criticism. Lucid, provocative, direct and inimitable, this new book from Stanley Fish is required reading for anyone teaching or studying Milton and early modern literary studies.
Copyright:
2012

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ISBN-13:
9781107003057
Related ISBNs:
9780521176248, 9781139365765
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Stanley Fish
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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I read this book for a better understanding of Stanley Fish and was not disappointed. It is excellently prepared for reading by those of our community. Since Stanley Fish seems to always be controversial, I would imagine others will find something different than I did in this book. While Fish's profession seems to be describing how writing is interpreted, not in prescribing what writing may mean to another reader, I thought he was saying what the source material was saying. It caused me t want to read one of his earlier books, "Self-consuming Artifacts" to see if I might recognize the intent of the two books to be identical. On another subject, what is the intent of this "Review" facility? I ask that hoping to see a review by someone else on this site some day. Thus far, it seems none has ever been written by others on any book which I've read.