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Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition

by Stanley Fish

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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. ... Read more

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.

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File size8.5 X 5.51 X 0 in
Print pages361
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Publication date November 12, 1997
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780674857476
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Stanley Fish
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Stanley Fish is Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke University. A founder of Reader Response Theory, he is the author of many books, including Surprised by Sin, Self-C...

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