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 125
... takes an attitude toward its attitude and knows itself to be a structure of understanding more than of fulfillment . But this knowledge is not a full consciousness that is absorbed and resonates through the mind , for it is detached ...
... takes an attitude toward its attitude and knows itself to be a structure of understanding more than of fulfillment . But this knowledge is not a full consciousness that is absorbed and resonates through the mind , for it is detached ...
Page 127
... takes place in a closed system in order that the movements cancel each other out and thereby reveal the unreality of absolute conceptions and of inter- mediates , as well as the futility of irony itself in any final sense . In this way ...
... takes place in a closed system in order that the movements cancel each other out and thereby reveal the unreality of absolute conceptions and of inter- mediates , as well as the futility of irony itself in any final sense . In this way ...
Page 197
... takes to control love and the fear of love is a " show of love well feigned . " This feigning hides the hate and therefore may be seen as a deception , but it is also the form the hate takes , its incarnation . In a universe that is not ...
... takes to control love and the fear of love is a " show of love well feigned . " This feigning hides the hate and therefore may be seen as a deception , but it is also the form the hate takes , its incarnation . In a universe that is not ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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