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 74
... consciousness over the issue of real presence . Conversely , from the other direction , great pain and consciousness of absence in the lyric mode may push the desirer into despair and thence into anger and irony . At the other pole of ...
... consciousness over the issue of real presence . Conversely , from the other direction , great pain and consciousness of absence in the lyric mode may push the desirer into despair and thence into anger and irony . At the other pole of ...
Page 85
... consciousness that defines one as a human is a mark of the limitation of sublimity and wonder . The end of tragedy is recognition with- out consciousness , or inarticulate consciousness . Tragedy may be con- sidered a transitional form ...
... consciousness that defines one as a human is a mark of the limitation of sublimity and wonder . The end of tragedy is recognition with- out consciousness , or inarticulate consciousness . Tragedy may be con- sidered a transitional form ...
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... consciousness , a medium that may some- times cause painful resistance but that simultaneously slows down heavenly kinesthesia to a plasticity that makes consciousness and action possible . In a third warping , the universe has been ...
... consciousness , a medium that may some- times cause painful resistance but that simultaneously slows down heavenly kinesthesia to a plasticity that makes consciousness and action possible . In a third warping , the universe has been ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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