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 68
... declension of mind shifts the mind's primary concerns from ontology to epistemology , yet it does not thereby set up any duality between poem / mind and " reality , " for the interflowing and inter- modulating process occurring in and ...
... declension of mind shifts the mind's primary concerns from ontology to epistemology , yet it does not thereby set up any duality between poem / mind and " reality , " for the interflowing and inter- modulating process occurring in and ...
Page 69
... declension of mind : it may be sympathic , lyric , and meditative all at once , depending on the mind's perspective and the aspects on which the mind is focusing . The reader may progress in a simple forward movement through the declension ...
... declension of mind : it may be sympathic , lyric , and meditative all at once , depending on the mind's perspective and the aspects on which the mind is focusing . The reader may progress in a simple forward movement through the declension ...
Page 267
... declension . The similes of Satan as scout in 3 : 543-51 and as city - dweller in 9 : 445-54 are similar instances in which the meditative choice leads in the direction of lyric and away from sympathic rage . The " partial " lyric song ...
... declension . The similes of Satan as scout in 3 : 543-51 and as city - dweller in 9 : 445-54 are similar instances in which the meditative choice leads in the direction of lyric and away from sympathic rage . The " partial " lyric song ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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