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Surprised by Sin: The Reader in "Paradise Lost"
 
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Surprised by Sin: The Reader in "Paradise Lost" (Paperback)

by Stanley Fish (Author)
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  • Paperback: 440 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press; 2nd edition edition (31 Mar 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 067485747X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674857476
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 755,844 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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This text was first published in the 1960s, in an era that no longer saw the need to choose between Milton's orthodoxy and heresy. Rather, Stanley Fish allowed us to see the epic poem as a self-revelatory experience in which the reader is "intangled" in the folds of Satan's rhetoric and is forced to re-evaluate his or her judgment of Satan by being led to experience unreliability, inadequacy, or falseness of what had once seemed to be clear or true. In a new preface, Fish revisits the thesis of "Surprised by Sin" and considers the challenges offered by post-structuralism, late-20th-century historicism, and political criticism.

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4.0 out of 5 stars indeed surprised, 10 Dec 2008
I loved his reader-response criticism. He argues that the reader is initially tricked by Satan by his use of persuasive and seductive language, thus when he tricks Eve to eating the fruit, we are surprised at how much we were nearly caught up by Satan and trusting him. This allows us to appreciate God's grace more, because it is as though we have committed some kind of sin, together with Adam and Eve.
It is a highly sophisticated argument, very interesting, and I think it has opened a new way for me to approach Paradise Lost.
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