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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822828003321

Autore

Fish Stanley Eugene

Titolo

Versions of antihumanism : Milton and others / / Stanley Fish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-107-22683-X

1-139-36576-2

1-280-66396-0

9786613640895

1-139-37830-9

0-511-75854-5

1-139-37544-X

1-139-37687-X

1-139-37145-2

1-139-37973-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

LIT004120

HK 2575

Disciplina

821/.4

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.