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 61
... stage into the next stage of the declension of mind . In this succeeding stage , pity and judgment resolve into subtler psychic motions that allow pity and judgment to be understood , and simultaneously the mind's reliance on one or two ...
... stage into the next stage of the declension of mind . In this succeeding stage , pity and judgment resolve into subtler psychic motions that allow pity and judgment to be understood , and simultaneously the mind's reliance on one or two ...
Page 68
... stage of the declension of mind shifts the mind's primary concerns from ontology to epistemology , yet it does not thereby set up any duality between poem / mind and " reality , " for the interflowing and inter- modulating process ...
... stage of the declension of mind shifts the mind's primary concerns from ontology to epistemology , yet it does not thereby set up any duality between poem / mind and " reality , " for the interflowing and inter- modulating process ...
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... stage of the declension of mind , the countering shifts the mind as a whole out of the lyric attachment ; in the later meditative stage , the mind contemplates both poles of the countering , attached to neither . This countering is ...
... stage of the declension of mind , the countering shifts the mind as a whole out of the lyric attachment ; in the later meditative stage , the mind contemplates both poles of the countering , attached to neither . This countering is ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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