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 75
... structure of fulfillment re- solves into some other structure . For example , in the motions just de- scribed , when the absolute begins to be fixed , the joy and permanence vanish , and the desirer shifts into trivial and fleeting ...
... structure of fulfillment re- solves into some other structure . For example , in the motions just de- scribed , when the absolute begins to be fixed , the joy and permanence vanish , and the desirer shifts into trivial and fleeting ...
Page 77
... structure of values , or it may be simply an undefined yearning for something better . Thus , although irony has no resolution of its own insofar as it points to and is partly anchored by another sympathic or modal form or motion , it ...
... structure of values , or it may be simply an undefined yearning for something better . Thus , although irony has no resolution of its own insofar as it points to and is partly anchored by another sympathic or modal form or motion , it ...
Page 143
... structure of mind in heaven lacks the consciousness of empathy and therefore does not allow for an adequate representation of the true structure of resonance that is the special nature of heavenly union . The structure of mind is not ...
... structure of mind in heaven lacks the consciousness of empathy and therefore does not allow for an adequate representation of the true structure of resonance that is the special nature of heavenly union . The structure of mind is not ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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