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 127
... represented for Milton the extremes to which the lust and violence underlying the concept of Belial were capable of ... represents a re- writing of those that occur in Genesis 19.15 If such is the case , then this rewriting involves a ...
... represented for Milton the extremes to which the lust and violence underlying the concept of Belial were capable of ... represents a re- writing of those that occur in Genesis 19.15 If such is the case , then this rewriting involves a ...
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... represents : Ha- raphah , means quite literally " the giant . " 20 Encoded in this name is the 19. Of importance to the interchange between Samson and the Chorus here and to the drama in its entirety is the whole question of the riddle ...
... represents : Ha- raphah , means quite literally " the giant . " 20 Encoded in this name is the 19. Of importance to the interchange between Samson and the Chorus here and to the drama in its entirety is the whole question of the riddle ...
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... represents the biblical formulation of that consummate moment of sparagmos in which the power of God makes itself known in the undoing of that presumption represented by the giant Goliath . With the dismemberment of Goliath , all the ...
... represents the biblical formulation of that consummate moment of sparagmos in which the power of God makes itself known in the undoing of that presumption represented by the giant Goliath . With the dismemberment of Goliath , all the ...
Contents
The Slaughter of the Saints | 13 |
The Fate of the Poet | 38 |
The Dismemberment of Orpheus | 59 |
Copyright | |
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