what's new about deconstruction?

Doug Millison DMillison at ftmg.net
Mon Jun 25 16:28:15 CDT 2001


"In the most recent sections of the book Fish seems to have realised that to
argue for a single, authorial interpretation is now deeply unfashionable,
and his account undergoes drastic revision. Milton, he now tells us, was
actually a "postmodern", who believed all truth local and revisable. Critics
who have detected conflict and ambiguity in Paradise Lost were quite right
after all. The poem's official morality, created by one part of Milton's
brain,"stigmatises and resists the energies, also created by the poet and
expressive of something in him, that would escape it". These are welcome
concessions, and make much of Fish's work on Milton redundant. But they do
not get beyond what Blake said two centuries ago."
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/24/stibooboo01017.html?
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