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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... less tangible than physical motion - such as smell and tempera- ture - it may allow him / her to perceive yet subtler and less tangible motions that would affect his / her sense of the nature of any object of perception . The most ...
... less tangible than physical motion - such as smell and tempera- ture - it may allow him / her to perceive yet subtler and less tangible motions that would affect his / her sense of the nature of any object of perception . The most ...
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... less affective , and more intellectually attitudinal than the lyric mode . Attainment of what is desired , or a positive connection between desirer and desired , is conceived of as impossible . Whereas in the lyric mode the causal ...
... less affective , and more intellectually attitudinal than the lyric mode . Attainment of what is desired , or a positive connection between desirer and desired , is conceived of as impossible . Whereas in the lyric mode the causal ...
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... less as conflict and more as a neutral observation of motion . The Proserpine and fawn similes in Book 4 offer a less neutral experience at first : it is harder to focus on both the ironic and lyric motions at once . But the tension in ...
... less as conflict and more as a neutral observation of motion . The Proserpine and fawn similes in Book 4 offer a less neutral experience at first : it is harder to focus on both the ironic and lyric motions at once . But the tension in ...
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