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 61
... pity and judgment , but through more subtle psychic motions in the third space of mind . The resolution of the issues of Paradise Lost into the conflict between pity and judgment is a resolution only because it defines and focuses these ...
... pity and judgment , but through more subtle psychic motions in the third space of mind . The resolution of the issues of Paradise Lost into the conflict between pity and judgment is a resolution only because it defines and focuses these ...
Page 88
... pity for the frail emmets ' painful and innocent perseverance and for the frail humans they represent . This balance consists of a double reference whose modal over- tones cut in two directions . There is the verbal irony ( “ providence ...
... pity for the frail emmets ' painful and innocent perseverance and for the frail humans they represent . This balance consists of a double reference whose modal over- tones cut in two directions . There is the verbal irony ( “ providence ...
Page 191
... pity opens one up to the pain and terror of the true power of love that cannot be understood or formed by quantitative structures , and indeed destroys them . Therefore the erasure of being in pity can be the erasure of falsely ...
... pity opens one up to the pain and terror of the true power of love that cannot be understood or formed by quantitative structures , and indeed destroys them . Therefore the erasure of being in pity can be the erasure of falsely ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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