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 54
... represented in the plot of Paradise Lost as well as in the counterplot , though this representation is perhaps easier to discern from the perspective of the counterplot . In the first stage of the declension , the epic is represented ...
... represented in the plot of Paradise Lost as well as in the counterplot , though this representation is perhaps easier to discern from the perspective of the counterplot . In the first stage of the declension , the epic is represented ...
Page 136
... represented in 2 : 752-67 , is that he suddenly feels " miserable pain " in his head , and sin is born , as well as knowledge ( " can it be sin to know ? " [ 4 : 517 ] ) . Another result is war : " Meanwhile war arose , / And fields ...
... represented in 2 : 752-67 , is that he suddenly feels " miserable pain " in his head , and sin is born , as well as knowledge ( " can it be sin to know ? " [ 4 : 517 ] ) . Another result is war : " Meanwhile war arose , / And fields ...
Page 272
... represented in the simile . The simile represents only the final right relation of motions - modal as well as universal . But the workings of the mind that maintain this state - the lines of force - are represented only by the entire ...
... represented in the simile . The simile represents only the final right relation of motions - modal as well as universal . But the workings of the mind that maintain this state - the lines of force - are represented only by the entire ...
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