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 125
... irony does not allow an unqualified relief . Rather , the point of view is disconnected from its own attitude and tone , from its ironic control , even while being engaged in it . This irony is situated somewhere between the paradigmatic ...
... irony does not allow an unqualified relief . Rather , the point of view is disconnected from its own attitude and tone , from its ironic control , even while being engaged in it . This irony is situated somewhere between the paradigmatic ...
Page 126
... irony is to reveal , as happened when the sympathic state of mind split into pity and judgment , a basic though often hidden fissure in the nature of Paradise as usually imagined : that those who live in Paradise curiously enjoy great ...
... irony is to reveal , as happened when the sympathic state of mind split into pity and judgment , a basic though often hidden fissure in the nature of Paradise as usually imagined : that those who live in Paradise curiously enjoy great ...
Page 136
... ironic strategy is simpler than the ironic structure of Eden , but it is complex in its implications . The irony keeps its essentially light - hearted " gamesome " quality ( 6 : 620 ) , typical of the pole of humor in the modal paradigm ...
... ironic strategy is simpler than the ironic structure of Eden , but it is complex in its implications . The irony keeps its essentially light - hearted " gamesome " quality ( 6 : 620 ) , typical of the pole of humor in the modal paradigm ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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