Stanley Fish is one of America’s most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism’s most basic

A collection of essays concerning language, literature, reading, writing and the reader.

Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Mi

In 1967 Milton studies was divided into two camps: one claiming (per Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party, the other claiming (per Addison an

In recent years, the world of literary and cultural studies has been riven by a fierce debate between those who would transform interpretative work and those wh