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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2003
- Book Title
- Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, 2nd Edition
- ISBN
- 9780674857476
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
067485747X
ISBN-13
9780674857476
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038427790
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
440 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Surprised by Sin : the Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition with a New Preface
Publication Year
1998
Subject
Poetry, Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Religion
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
97-038854
Reviews
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 brilliant critical manifesto in its own right. Fish thereby affirms the validity, preeminence, and timeliness of his "great argument," which will continue to inform critical debates unremittingly in the future., Thirty years ago, Surprised by Sin initiated the modern age in Milton criticism. Still the one book necessarily engaged by Milton scholars, it continues to provoke, irritate, and illuminate. Reissued now, with a substantial new preface, it clarifies in fascinating ways not only the course of Milton studies but also the continuing career of its controversial author., Thirty years after its original publication. 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, Fish dares us, in a formidable new preface, to think again.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
821.4
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements Preface to the Second Edition Preface 1. Not So Much a Teaching as an Intangling 2. The Milk of the Pure Word 3. Man's Polluting Sin 4. Standing Only: Christian Heroism 5. The Interpretative Choice 6. What Cause?: Faith and Reason 7. So God with Man Unites Appendixes Notes on the Moral Unity of Paradise Lost Discovery as Form in Paradise Lost Index of Authors and Titles Index of Subjects
Synopsis
In 1967 Milton studies was divided into two camps: one claiming (per Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party, the other claiming (per Addison and C. S. Lewis) that the poet's sympathies were obviously with God and his loyal angels. Fish has reconciled the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis., 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 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--that is, fallen--and the poem's lesson is proven on a reader's impulse every time he or she finds a devilish action attractive or a godly action dismaying. Fish's argument reshaped the face of Milton studies; thirty years later the issues raised in Surprised by Sin continue to set the agenda and drive debate.
LC Classification Number
PR3562.F5 1998
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