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... Christian poem , and he expects an epic . He cannot escape knowing at least the rudiments of Christian doctrine : a single , omnipotent Creator ; an evil Adversary ; the story of how the first two human beings were seduced by that Adver ...
... Christian poem , and he expects an epic . He cannot escape knowing at least the rudiments of Christian doctrine : a single , omnipotent Creator ; an evil Adversary ; the story of how the first two human beings were seduced by that Adver ...
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... Christian epic " is in Mil- ton's hands an oxymoron whose literal self - contradiction forces the mind to perceive a higher , super - logical level of meaning . The contradiction in this case lies in a Christian ( ultimately Platonic ) ...
... Christian epic " is in Mil- ton's hands an oxymoron whose literal self - contradiction forces the mind to perceive a higher , super - logical level of meaning . The contradiction in this case lies in a Christian ( ultimately Platonic ) ...
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... Christian purpose will keep him from assenting to that impression . Repeatedly Milton's text asks the reader to choose between antithetical contexts , epic and Christian . Will responsible read- ers be able to make the right choice ? My ...
... Christian purpose will keep him from assenting to that impression . Repeatedly Milton's text asks the reader to choose between antithetical contexts , epic and Christian . Will responsible read- ers be able to make the right choice ? My ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton