Milton and the Culture of ViolenceIn this powerful work of criticism, Lieb explores the culture of violence--shaped by myth as well as historical circumstance--that colors Milton's outlook and permeates his art. In Lieb's view, a central image in Milton's writings is the specter of sparagmos, or bodily mutilation and dismemberment. Tracing this image across Milton's entire career, Lieb offers authoritative new readings of Areopagitica, A Mask, Lycidas, Samson Agonistes, and Paradise Lost, as well as of lesser-known works. |
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Page 46
... passage is among the most thoroughly revised in Lycidas . A glance at the Trinity College Manuscript confirms the extent to which Milton worked and reworked the passage before it reached its present form.21 In the first version of the ...
... passage is among the most thoroughly revised in Lycidas . A glance at the Trinity College Manuscript confirms the extent to which Milton worked and reworked the passage before it reached its present form.21 In the first version of the ...
Page 115
... passage that offers fit comparison with the proem to book 7. The passage in question appears within the context of Milton's account of the pagan deities in the first book of his epic . Culminating that portion of the account centered in ...
... passage that offers fit comparison with the proem to book 7. The passage in question appears within the context of Milton's account of the pagan deities in the first book of his epic . Culminating that portion of the account centered in ...
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... passage as a whole , we are in danger of falling into the same trap . Given the transformation the concubine undergoes in Milton's thought as well as the implications of the emendations sustained by the passage that inscribes her fate ...
... passage as a whole , we are in danger of falling into the same trap . Given the transformation the concubine undergoes in Milton's thought as well as the implications of the emendations sustained by the passage that inscribes her fate ...
Contents
The Slaughter of the Saints | 13 |
The Fate of the Poet | 38 |
The Dismemberment of Orpheus | 59 |
Copyright | |
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