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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... Mode 93 The Complex Relativizing Mode 98 The Meditative Perspective 105 PART II Flight Toward Reality : A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost 109 5 The Lyric Mode 111 6 The Ironic Mode : The Garden of Eden 124 7 The Ironic Mode : The Fall in ...
... Mode 93 The Complex Relativizing Mode 98 The Meditative Perspective 105 PART II Flight Toward Reality : A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost 109 5 The Lyric Mode 111 6 The Ironic Mode : The Garden of Eden 124 7 The Ironic Mode : The Fall in ...
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... mode is 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 ...
... mode is 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 ...
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... mode applied to but detached from feeling . In the same vein , one may contemplate the countering of lyric and ironic in the Proserpine simile , the lyric appear- ance of flowers in the path of enraged heavenly power , and the seemingly ...
... mode applied to but detached from feeling . In the same vein , one may contemplate the countering of lyric and ironic in the Proserpine simile , the lyric appear- ance of flowers in the path of enraged heavenly power , and the seemingly ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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