Versions of Antihumanism: Milton and Others

Description

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.

Stanley Fish is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a Professor of Law at Florida International University. He has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and the University of Illinois, Chicago where he was Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He has received many honors and awards, including being named the Chicagoan of the Year for Culture. He is the author of fourteen books and is a weekly columnist for The New York Times.

'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