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 68
... 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 reveals the structures ...
... 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 reveals the structures ...
Page 163
... reality of the human configuration and to help increase Adam and Eve's understanding of it - their mutual self- knowledge - undermines the purpose of his mission and makes them more , not less , vulnerable to Satan's guile . But their ...
... reality of the human configuration and to help increase Adam and Eve's understanding of it - their mutual self- knowledge - undermines the purpose of his mission and makes them more , not less , vulnerable to Satan's guile . But their ...
Page 199
... reality — a state in which mind and reality do not exist as separately as they do in heaven , for the structure of corresponding mind is Adam and Eve's reality , their reason for being - there is less danger here than there was in ...
... reality — a state in which mind and reality do not exist as separately as they do in heaven , for the structure of corresponding mind is Adam and Eve's reality , their reason for being - there is less danger here than there was in ...
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