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 36
... shift in point of view may , as do the more literal physical shifts , change the appearance of an object of perception as the viewer's emotional relation toward it changes . Such tonal shifts occur repeatedly throughout Paradise Lost ...
... shift in point of view may , as do the more literal physical shifts , change the appearance of an object of perception as the viewer's emotional relation toward it changes . Such tonal shifts occur repeatedly throughout Paradise Lost ...
Page 37
... shifts are shown in the instances quoted in the introduction where a mimetic description modulates into a lyrical simile - into the scenes of the whale , elves , autumn leaves , and reviving fields . The shift into the editorial ...
... shifts are shown in the instances quoted in the introduction where a mimetic description modulates into a lyrical simile - into the scenes of the whale , elves , autumn leaves , and reviving fields . The shift into the editorial ...
Page 63
... shift into so that it becomes a present . The shifts into simile in Books 1 and 2 likewise involve a shift into future time , but because this future time is imaged in terms of place - Valdarno , Fesole the shift seems less radical . A ...
... shift into so that it becomes a present . The shifts into simile in Books 1 and 2 likewise involve a shift into future time , but because this future time is imaged in terms of place - Valdarno , Fesole the shift seems less radical . A ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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