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... meaning " without examining how that meaning comes about . Although no one would accept a statement like " the Fall was , perhaps , fortunate " as an adequate substitute for the ex- perience of reading Paradise Lost , the tendency of ...
... meaning " without examining how that meaning comes about . Although no one would accept a statement like " the Fall was , perhaps , fortunate " as an adequate substitute for the ex- perience of reading Paradise Lost , the tendency of ...
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... meaning here is only ambiguously suggested by the text and demands the reader's col- laboration to establish . To get at his " real " meaning - to get at any fixed meaning at all , actually — we must be energetic Salvation through Reading ...
... meaning here is only ambiguously suggested by the text and demands the reader's col- laboration to establish . To get at his " real " meaning - to get at any fixed meaning at all , actually — we must be energetic Salvation through Reading ...
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... meaning of the text , since it can have no determi- nate or determinable meaning ” ( p.5 ) . But in fact no generally agreed - upon single meaning exists for any literary text , and I doubt that many of us need or want such univocality ...
... meaning of the text , since it can have no determi- nate or determinable meaning ” ( p.5 ) . But in fact no generally agreed - upon single meaning exists for any literary text , and I doubt that many of us need or want such univocality ...
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