Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise LostAs a reinterpretation of Milton, this study engages the ideas of Freud, Nietzsche, and Derrida. However, the author derives her thesis from Milton's own debt to ancient Biblical sources. The Bible, says Schwartz, offers Milton a pattern of repeated beginnings that informs his depiction of the universe and characterizes his poetic and interpretative processes. This original reading of the Bible enables a powerful rereading of Paradise Lost. |
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Contents
And the sea was no more Chaos vs creation | 8 |
The unclean realm | 11 |
Cosmogonic conflict | 24 |
Chaos and the fall | 31 |
Secret gaze or open admiration The invitation to origins | 40 |
Curiosity and knowledge | 41 |
Things visible to mortal sight | 53 |
Remember and tell over Creation in sacred song | 60 |
Cosmic liturgy | 77 |
Paradise Lost as hymn | 83 |
Yet once more Recreation repetition and return | 91 |
The Satanic will | 94 |
Adamic return | 103 |
Notes | 111 |
| 129 | |
| 137 | |
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Page 2 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
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| Title | Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost |
| Author | Regina M. Schwartz |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0521343577, 9780521343572 |
| Length | 144 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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