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 36
... physical motion — as in the perception of the fishes - and if it allows the perception of motions less tangible than physical motion - such as smell and tempera- ture - it may allow him / her to perceive yet subtler and less tangible ...
... physical motion — as in the perception of the fishes - and if it allows the perception of motions less tangible than physical motion - such as smell and tempera- ture - it may allow him / her to perceive yet subtler and less tangible ...
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... physical laws and in so doing will bring power and wisdom to the mind willing to overcome its fears and enter the third space . Milton also forces the relation between the imaginative frame and other frames often identified with it ...
... physical laws and in so doing will bring power and wisdom to the mind willing to overcome its fears and enter the third space . Milton also forces the relation between the imaginative frame and other frames often identified with it ...
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... physical self is difficult to distinguish from either his likeness in simile ( toad ) and position ( squat ) or , more significant , his psychological self , the self who speaks " falsehood " which “ returns / Of force to its own ...
... physical self is difficult to distinguish from either his likeness in simile ( toad ) and position ( squat ) or , more significant , his psychological self , the self who speaks " falsehood " which “ returns / Of force to its own ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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