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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... poem into a structure of understanding , the poem resists such efforts at every turn , and reading it can then become a painful as well as a rich experience . Paradise Lost seems to be constructed in such a way that its different ...
... poem into a structure of understanding , the poem resists such efforts at every turn , and reading it can then become a painful as well as a rich experience . Paradise Lost seems to be constructed in such a way that its different ...
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... poem and the reader , or the reader's attitude toward the content and his / her own responses to it , ' but rather the attitude implied or called up by the poem in the human psyche in general , in the psyche as a reality heuristically ...
... poem and the reader , or the reader's attitude toward the content and his / her own responses to it , ' but rather the attitude implied or called up by the poem in the human psyche in general , in the psyche as a reality heuristically ...
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... poem / mind and " reality , " for the interflowing and inter- modulating process occurring in and between poem and mind and the emerg- ing structures and energies come in the end into an alignment in which mind resonates with and ...
... poem / mind and " reality , " for the interflowing and inter- modulating process occurring in and between poem and mind and the emerg- ing structures and energies come in the end into an alignment in which mind resonates with and ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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