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 25
... becomes in Milton's declension of mind a complex medita- tion begins not only in the mind's painful sympathic conflicts but also in the humbler experience of one of the simplest perceptual truths : that the appear- ance of an object and ...
... becomes in Milton's declension of mind a complex medita- tion begins not only in the mind's painful sympathic conflicts but also in the humbler experience of one of the simplest perceptual truths : that the appear- ance of an object and ...
Page 79
... becomes more excruciatingly intensified by its very absence . Last , there is the presence of attainable good in which the two senses of possibility concur . However , this presence , at the pole of humor , is the presence of closeness ...
... becomes more excruciatingly intensified by its very absence . Last , there is the presence of attainable good in which the two senses of possibility concur . However , this presence , at the pole of humor , is the presence of closeness ...
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... becomes tighter and more condensed until it breaks into the vision of the alternate structure or into a third space , the humor in the war in heaven becomes freer , looser , and more indulgent as the heavenly battle becomes increas ...
... becomes tighter and more condensed until it breaks into the vision of the alternate structure or into a third space , the humor in the war in heaven becomes freer , looser , and more indulgent as the heavenly battle becomes increas ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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