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 13
... seems precisely com- posed to avoid such relative comforts . It seems to be specifically calculated in its shifting dimensionality to arouse pain and anger in the mind as well as curiosity and delight . The disjunctiveness , for example ...
... seems precisely com- posed to avoid such relative comforts . It seems to be specifically calculated in its shifting dimensionality to arouse pain and anger in the mind as well as curiosity and delight . The disjunctiveness , for example ...
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... seem casual , almost insignificant , as when Raphael says to Adam " whether heav'n move or earth , / Imports not , if ... seems impossible to focus on both simultaneously , to have both figure and ground be figure . Sympathy and moral ...
... seem casual , almost insignificant , as when Raphael says to Adam " whether heav'n move or earth , / Imports not , if ... seems impossible to focus on both simultaneously , to have both figure and ground be figure . Sympathy and moral ...
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... seem trivial , and for the insufficiency of the ironic mode . The gods in the Greek myth who are more powerful than ... seems apt in light of these lines . In the defining of the nature of Eden by the intersectings and clashings of ...
... seem trivial , and for the insufficiency of the ironic mode . The gods in the Greek myth who are more powerful than ... seems apt in light of these lines . In the defining of the nature of Eden by the intersectings and clashings of ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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