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 74
... move to the other pole of irony , the pole of derision . In the midst of lesser joys the joy itself may cause the true object of longing to reobtrude itself into conscious- ness , and then the desirer's distancing irony may break into ...
... move to the other pole of irony , the pole of derision . In the midst of lesser joys the joy itself may cause the true object of longing to reobtrude itself into conscious- ness , and then the desirer's distancing irony may break into ...
Page 77
... move from the sympathic conflicts of hell to the modal reality of Eden . Yet the mind may not rest permanently in Eden either , but must move on into the motions of a higher consciousness . As the sympathic progress of mind in the first ...
... move from the sympathic conflicts of hell to the modal reality of Eden . Yet the mind may not rest permanently in Eden either , but must move on into the motions of a higher consciousness . As the sympathic progress of mind in the first ...
Page 263
... move in relation to the object of meditation in the various currents of the modality connecting and upholding them . In the meditative exercises proper after these transitional and preparatory exercises , the mind moves , maintaining ...
... move in relation to the object of meditation in the various currents of the modality connecting and upholding them . In the meditative exercises proper after these transitional and preparatory exercises , the mind moves , maintaining ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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