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 197
... action , but it is action of a new kind that involves mind and spirit as well as body , and that , unlike war or rape , seeks an acceptance from the object instead of capitula- tion . Because the desired end in seduction is mutual , its ...
... action , but it is action of a new kind that involves mind and spirit as well as body , and that , unlike war or rape , seeks an acceptance from the object instead of capitula- tion . Because the desired end in seduction is mutual , its ...
Page 215
... action is now destroyed , and now his fall is complete . This dramatic stretching between art and mind and action , the " as if " of the third space thereby collapsed , Satan becomes the serpent whose form he took . The medium of ...
... action is now destroyed , and now his fall is complete . This dramatic stretching between art and mind and action , the " as if " of the third space thereby collapsed , Satan becomes the serpent whose form he took . The medium of ...
Page 254
... action and mind that is necessarily dependent on " secondary " beings . The " pure " has yearned to express itself in the creation of " intermediate " beings and forms , and in reciprocity has yearned for some- thing " better " than ...
... action and mind that is necessarily dependent on " secondary " beings . The " pure " has yearned to express itself in the creation of " intermediate " beings and forms , and in reciprocity has yearned for some- thing " better " than ...
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