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 121
... ironic . This opposition arrests the mind rather than alluring it . A psychic realm where one disconnects one's yearning from the unattainable absolute and substitutes attainable plea- sures - an ironic strategy discussed in chapter 3 ...
... ironic . This opposition arrests the mind rather than alluring it . A psychic realm where one disconnects one's yearning from the unattainable absolute and substitutes attainable plea- sures - an ironic strategy discussed in chapter 3 ...
Page 127
... irony itself in any final sense . In this way Milton's ironic strategy is baroque : he creates a material entity that , through its exaggeration and even grossness , reveals a certain self - consciousness of its materiality's ...
... irony itself in any final sense . In this way Milton's ironic strategy is baroque : he creates a material entity that , through its exaggeration and even grossness , reveals a certain self - consciousness of its materiality's ...
Page 308
... Irony , ironic ; Lyric- ironic modal structure : Satire Irony , ironic , 15 ; of Adam and Eve's fall , 168– 69 ; dovetailed with lyric , 127 ; ironic picture of Eden contrasted to dynamic picture of Eden , 166 ; ironic shifting in ...
... Irony , ironic ; Lyric- ironic modal structure : Satire Irony , ironic , 15 ; of Adam and Eve's fall , 168– 69 ; dovetailed with lyric , 127 ; ironic picture of Eden contrasted to dynamic picture of Eden , 166 ; ironic shifting in ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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