Article: How Stanley Fish works.(How Milton Works)(Book Review)

HOW MILTON WORKS

By Stanley Fish. Belknap/Harvard. $35.

Stanley Fish has long been among the better known if more narrowly focused American students of John Milton and, with his "reader's response" formulations, among those critics devising new ways to look for and find meaning in texts. His early books include Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost and Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature, whose titles alone can generate bemused rumination. (Fish delights in fireworks, prime self-consuming artifacts, which, of course, have been known to fizzle.) During his dazzling emergence as a promoter of close reading, ...

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