Versions of Antihumanism: Milton and Others - Softcover

Fish, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521176247 ISBN 13: 9780521176248

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

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.

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Review:

'Fish can be distinctive, absorbing and powerful.' The Times Literary Supplement

'... not to be missed by anyone who aspires to be a better reader of Milton ...' William H. Pritchard, The Hudson Review

Book Description:

Stanley Fish's finest published work is brought together here with brand new material on Milton and on other authors and topics in early modern literature. Lucid, provocative, direct and inimitable, this book is required reading for anyone teaching or studying Milton and early modern literary studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521176247
• ISBN 13: 9780521176248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300