Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered MindKristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham The nineteen essays in this collection explore such varied fields of argument as John Milton's authorship of the Christian Doctrine, his adaptations of source material, his engagement in political controversies, his attitudes toward gender in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, and his reflection of seventeenth-century obstetrics and anticipation of modern chaos theory in Paradise Lost. In their sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, and consistently interrogative views of Milton and his work, these essays offer an "arena of conflict" for future studies. |
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... Comus is a dramatized debate " that one can read or act " and hardly realize that there are dances , " 1 modern scholarship has done much to bring the music back to the masque . Espe- cially since John Demaray's detailed study of the ...
... Comus is a dramatized debate " that one can read or act " and hardly realize that there are dances , " 1 modern scholarship has done much to bring the music back to the masque . Espe- cially since John Demaray's detailed study of the ...
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... Comus a confused mixture of " poetical experi- ments , " 5 and Don Cameron Allen considered the entire masque " Milton's ill success " and " an attempted reconciliation of opposites that failed . ” Allen considered all attempts to ...
... Comus a confused mixture of " poetical experi- ments , " 5 and Don Cameron Allen considered the entire masque " Milton's ill success " and " an attempted reconciliation of opposites that failed . ” Allen considered all attempts to ...
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... Comus , the master of metamorphosis , shakes in his boots . But the scene , the culmination of the Lady's course of travel , through culture , also repre- sents Alice's enunciative movement from woman warrior to warrior rea- soner ...
... Comus , the master of metamorphosis , shakes in his boots . But the scene , the culmination of the Lady's course of travel , through culture , also repre- sents Alice's enunciative movement from woman warrior to warrior rea- soner ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Miltons Transgressive Maneuvers | 21 |
Ramblings in Elucidation of the Authorship of the Christian | 41 |
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