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Creator
Date
2012
Location
Cambridge, UK
Cambridge, England
Great Britain
Cambridge, England
Great Britain
Media format
Printed text
Extent
ix, 289 p.
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 265900
Folger call number: PR3588 .F577 2012
Folger holdings ID: 351714
Folger call number: PR3588 .F577 2012
Folger holdings ID: 351714
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Milton: 1. The Brenzel lectures; 2. To the pure all things are pure: law, faith and interpretation in the prose and poetry of John Milton; 3. 'There is nothing he cannot ask': Milton, liberalism, and terrorism; 4. Why Milton matters, or against historicism; 5. Milton in popular culture; 6. How the reviews work; 7. The New Milton criticism; Part II. Early Modern Literature: 8. Void of storie: the struggle for insincerity in Herbert's prose and poetry; 9. Authors-readers: Jonson's community of the same; 10. Marvell and the art of disappearance; 11. Masculine persuasive force: Donne and verbal power; 12. How Hobbes works; Index
Also known as
Extended title: Versions of anti-humanism : Milton and others / Stanley Fish
Subjects
Related names
author: Fish, Stanley Eugene
subject: Milton, John, 1608-1674
subject: Milton, John, 1608-1674