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 62
... experience of shifting into a frameless dimension , frameless , that is , in terms of conceptual or mimetic definitions . In this experience , at first one seems to suddenly move into an " empty " space ; yet the space is not a void or ...
... experience of shifting into a frameless dimension , frameless , that is , in terms of conceptual or mimetic definitions . In this experience , at first one seems to suddenly move into an " empty " space ; yet the space is not a void or ...
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... experience of mind , defines itself more in its own context and out of its own materials . Therefore it is difficult to frame it in a paradigm . Moreover , such framing is difficult because meditation is an experience whose " answers ...
... experience of mind , defines itself more in its own context and out of its own materials . Therefore it is difficult to frame it in a paradigm . Moreover , such framing is difficult because meditation is an experience whose " answers ...
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... experience all the poles and motions of the modal structure — the warmth and fulfillment of the thriving and sunny city , the ironic reminder of Aeneas's distance from his own future city , his uncertainty , and his yearn- ing ; and ...
... experience all the poles and motions of the modal structure — the warmth and fulfillment of the thriving and sunny city , the ironic reminder of Aeneas's distance from his own future city , his uncertainty , and his yearn- ing ; and ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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