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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... discussed above appears as a historical character in 12 : 169-226 . Milton even includes the same " potent rod " ( 1 : 338 , and 12 : 211 ) and " crazed " and " broken " chariot wheels ( 1 : 311 and 12 : 210 ) in the scene . When in ...
... discussed above appears as a historical character in 12 : 169-226 . Milton even includes the same " potent rod " ( 1 : 338 , and 12 : 211 ) and " crazed " and " broken " chariot wheels ( 1 : 311 and 12 : 210 ) in the scene . When in ...
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... discussed , so he dis- solves the distinction between substance and quality by using adjectives as nouns in such phrases as " palpable obscure " and " vast abrupt " ( 2 : 406 , 409 ) . The " obscure " becomes " palpable " partly because ...
... discussed , so he dis- solves the distinction between substance and quality by using adjectives as nouns in such phrases as " palpable obscure " and " vast abrupt " ( 2 : 406 , 409 ) . The " obscure " becomes " palpable " partly because ...
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... discussed above , 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 ...
... discussed above , 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 ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
Copyright | |
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