With Mortal Voice: The Creation of Paradise Lost

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University Press of Kentucky, 15 de jul. 2014 - 208 pàgines

More often than not, critics have looked upon Milton's great epic not as a literary work but rather as a theological tract or a display of Renaissance learning. In this book John Shawcross seeks to redress that critical imbalance by examining the poem for its literary values. In doing so he reveals the scope and depth of Milton's poetic craftsmanship in his control of such elements as structure, myth, style, and language; and he offers new approaches to reading Paradise Lost as a literary masterpiece rather than a relic of religious history.

 

Continguts

1 The Rhetor as Creator
1
2 Inspiration Meaning
12
3 The Thesis the Theme
21
4The Hero
33
5 Structural Patterns
42
6 Numerological Relationships
56
7 Sources as Meaning Structure
68
8 The Genre
84
10 The Myth of Return
110
11 The Myth of Exodus
119
12 The Poem as Novelistic Technique
139
13 The Poem as Entity
156
The Dates of Composition
173
Notes
178
Index
195
Copyright

9 The Style
100

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Sobre l'autor (2014)

John T. Shawcross, professor of English at the University of Kentucky, has edited The Complete Poetry of John Milton and The Complete Poetry of John Donne, and is the author of Language and Style in Milton, Achievements of the Left Hand: Essays on Milton's Prose, and Milton: The Critical Heritage.

-- William B. Hunter

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