Milton's Kinesthetic Vision in Paradise LostThe author demonstrates that the apparent contradictions in the poetic, dramatic, and conceptual framework of Paradise Lost are purposive, indeed central, to Milton's kinesthetic poetics. |
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Page 63
... Book 4 , to the end of Book 9 , after the fall . The past in the shift is past from a different present from the one God is speaking from in Book 3 : this present is , from the point of view of Book 3 , a future the reader must ...
... Book 4 , to the end of Book 9 , after the fall . The past in the shift is past from a different present from the one God is speaking from in Book 3 : this present is , from the point of view of Book 3 , a future the reader must ...
Page 169
... Book 9 as he had earlier in Book 5 or as God had responded to him in Book 8 , Book 9 might have marked a major step forward in their understand- ing of each other and contributed toward a stronger and more resonant " union . " Had Adam ...
... Book 9 as he had earlier in Book 5 or as God had responded to him in Book 8 , Book 9 might have marked a major step forward in their understand- ing of each other and contributed toward a stronger and more resonant " union . " Had Adam ...
Page 256
... Books 3 and 5 shift the mind from epic into simple relativizing and then tentatively into the third space , while the simile in Book 1 fully introduces the mind to the complex mode . When Satan lands on the sun in Book 3 , Milton says ...
... Books 3 and 5 shift the mind from epic into simple relativizing and then tentatively into the third space , while the simile in Book 1 fully introduces the mind to the complex mode . When Satan lands on the sun in Book 3 , Milton says ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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action Adam and Eve Adam's allow angels anger appearance beauty becomes beginning Book cause complex consciousness countering created creation declension defined described desirer destroy direct discussed disjunctive distance earth energy epic Eve's evil experience expresses fall fallen fear feels forces frame fruit gives heaven hell human identification imagination ironic irony judgment knowledge leads less light lyric meditative Milton mind modal mode motions move movement nature neutrality object pain Paradise Lost passage perceived perception perhaps physical picture pity poem pole possible principle psychic pure Raphael reader reality reciprocity reference relation relativizing represented resonance response Satan says seems sense serves shift similar simile simple spirit stage stars strategy structure sympathic takes thee third space thou thought tion tone tree turns universe vision winds wonder yearning yield