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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Elizabeth Ely Fuller. 7 The Ironic Mode : The Fall in Heaven As in the presentation of Eden , Milton's irony in the account of the war in heaven functions to define the reader's perception of heaven as well as the nature of heaven itself ...
Elizabeth Ely Fuller. 7 The Ironic Mode : The Fall in Heaven As in the presentation of Eden , Milton's irony in the account of the war in heaven functions to define the reader's perception of heaven as well as the nature of heaven itself ...
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... heaven are motions without the third space , a kind of absolute kinesthesia that is inca- pable of the movement of development . Although the breach introduced fear and pain into heaven , there was no mental correlate to confront it ...
... heaven are motions without the third space , a kind of absolute kinesthesia that is inca- pable of the movement of development . Although the breach introduced fear and pain into heaven , there was no mental correlate to confront it ...
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... heaven , the true union toward which human being is destined . Raphael's distancing between heaven and earth is a disjunction because he does not represent it in a way in which the viewer can see the change as it takes place , either ...
... heaven , the true union toward which human being is destined . Raphael's distancing between heaven and earth is a disjunction because he does not represent it in a way in which the viewer can see the change as it takes place , either ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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