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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Elizabeth Ely Fuller. 8 The Ironic Mode : The Art of Raphael While the account of the war in heaven is being presented by Milton to the reader in a special ironic mode , it is also being presented by Raphael to Adam and Eve in a slightly ...
Elizabeth Ely Fuller. 8 The Ironic Mode : The Art of Raphael While the account of the war in heaven is being presented by Milton to the reader in a special ironic mode , it is also being presented by Raphael to Adam and Eve in a slightly ...
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... Raphael's distancing between heaven and earth is a disjunction because he does not represent it in a way in which the viewer can see the change as it takes place , either through a change of position , as in Satan's and Raphael's ...
... Raphael's distancing between heaven and earth is a disjunction because he does not represent it in a way in which the viewer can see the change as it takes place , either through a change of position , as in Satan's and Raphael's ...
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... Raphael does not say " weigh her with yourself " but " weigh yourself with her , then value . " And he does not ... Raphael's speech does not say that passion overturns love and that the dominance of reason and of the scale of nature ...
... Raphael does not say " weigh her with yourself " but " weigh yourself with her , then value . " And he does not ... Raphael's speech does not say that passion overturns love and that the dominance of reason and of the scale of nature ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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