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 73
... pole to pole within each mode , and also from one mode into the other , defining other poles as it moves . For example , in response to the pain of the lyric pole of absence , the desirer gains ironic distance from the object and from ...
... pole to pole within each mode , and also from one mode into the other , defining other poles as it moves . For example , in response to the pain of the lyric pole of absence , the desirer gains ironic distance from the object and from ...
Page 74
... 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 derision and ...
... 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 derision and ...
Page 124
... pole of pain and anger - anger directed against the desirer - is the editorial comment in the description of the heavenly stairs connecting heaven and earth that Satan beholds in his journey toward earth in Book 3 : The stairs were then ...
... pole of pain and anger - anger directed against the desirer - is the editorial comment in the description of the heavenly stairs connecting heaven and earth that Satan beholds in his journey toward earth in Book 3 : The stairs were then ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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action Adam and Eve Adam's allow angels anger appearance beauty becomes beginning Book cause complex consciousness countering created creation declension defined described desirer destroy direct discussed disjunctive distance earth energy epic Eve's evil experience expresses fall fallen fear feels forces frame fruit gives heaven hell human identification imagination ironic irony judgment knowledge leads less light lyric meditative Milton mind modal mode motions move movement nature neutrality object pain Paradise Lost passage perceived perception perhaps physical picture pity poem pole possible principle psychic pure Raphael reader reality reciprocity reference relation relativizing represented resonance response Satan says seems sense serves shift similar simile simple spirit stage stars strategy structure sympathic takes thee third space thou thought tion tone tree turns universe vision winds wonder yearning yield