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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... imaginative space from becoming imaginary or mystical : he will not allow it to be a safe and separate space removed from or transcending the heat and dust of the " real " world , an imagination whose virtue derives from a vague ...
... imaginative space from becoming imaginary or mystical : he will not allow it to be a safe and separate space removed from or transcending the heat and dust of the " real " world , an imagination whose virtue derives from a vague ...
Page 107
... imagination , the third space in which they can live , and thus come to know , without committing unmeditated and irreversible ac- tions . The best solution , and maybe the only possible one , lies in the strength of this strange power ...
... imagination , the third space in which they can live , and thus come to know , without committing unmeditated and irreversible ac- tions . The best solution , and maybe the only possible one , lies in the strength of this strange power ...
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... imagination that is not very different from Satan's perception of the fruit . Raphael's similes do not have the distance of the third space . They are too brief ; and they have no pause , no still mood , no yearning , no resonance ...
... imagination that is not very different from Satan's perception of the fruit . Raphael's similes do not have the distance of the third space . They are too brief ; and they have no pause , no still mood , no yearning , no resonance ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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action Adam and Eve Adam's allow angels anger appearance beauty becomes beginning Book cause complex consciousness countering created creation declension defined described desirer destroy direct discussed disjunctive distance earth energy epic Eve's evil experience expresses fall fallen fear feels forces frame fruit gives heaven hell human identification imagination ironic irony judgment knowledge leads less light lyric meditative Milton mind modal mode motions move movement nature neutrality object pain Paradise Lost passage perceived perception perhaps physical picture pity poem pole possible principle psychic pure Raphael reader reality reciprocity reference relation relativizing represented resonance response Satan says seems sense serves shift similar simile simple spirit stage stars strategy structure sympathic takes thee third space thou thought tion tone tree turns universe vision winds wonder yearning yield