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 40
... allows and explains motion as well as posi- tion , but often conceptual frames allow only fixed position of mind and restricted motion , the frames taking on the solidity of objects in the mind unlike the physical concepts of space ...
... allows and explains motion as well as posi- tion , but often conceptual frames allow only fixed position of mind and restricted motion , the frames taking on the solidity of objects in the mind unlike the physical concepts of space ...
Page 78
... allow no word or object to become fixed and stable as symbol . His use of the vehicle - tenor structure not to connect the worlds of desirer and desired but , by focusing on the gap between them , to open into a third space , allows no ...
... allow no word or object to become fixed and stable as symbol . His use of the vehicle - tenor structure not to connect the worlds of desirer and desired but , by focusing on the gap between them , to open into a third space , allows no ...
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... allow oneself to wander , and pause in the temporary ports that are themselves part of the journey , in the lyric world ; one must allow oneself to be calmed , inspired , and changed by the lulling winds even though they may soon rise ...
... allow oneself to wander , and pause in the temporary ports that are themselves part of the journey , in the lyric world ; one must allow oneself to be calmed , inspired , and changed by the lulling winds even though they may soon rise ...
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