Paradise Lost And The Rhetoric Of Literary Forms

Author : Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853958
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms written by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Margaret Kean
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415303255
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Milton's Paradise Lost written by Margaret Kean and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students new to Milton's work, this sourcebook outlines the seventeenth-century contexts of its composition and examines a range of the key critical responses from across literary history. The guide also usefully reprints frequently studied passages of the poem, suggests further reading, and provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical material.

Author : Stephanie Quinn
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865164185
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Vergil? written by Stephanie Quinn and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 43 classic essays and poems on the Roman poet. Quinn's position is that his work continues to be compelling and flexible enough to support a wide range of interpretations and perspectives. In addition to a bibliography, she provides a lengthy introduction and conclusion that tackle the question of the book's title, Why Vergil? Further, she juxtaposes the first few lines of the Aeneid in its original Latin with five translations, and includes a synopsis of it and a list of dates for quick reference. She has not indexed the volume.

Author : Jonathon Shears
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351882430
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost written by Jonathon Shears and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets, contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical, aesthetic, and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without, Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme, or warp the 'grain', of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic.

Author : Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874136913
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Form and Reform in Renaissance England written by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, they reexamine the categories which have shaped recent studies of early modern culture and literature, such as what constitutes the category of author or reader, what demarcates a particular literary form, and how its discursive shape might influence, and in turn be influenced by, contemporary political practices."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milton's Paradise Lost ... written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Quint
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400850487
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Paradise Lost written by David Quint and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint’s comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects of Paradise Lost—its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible, its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice. Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by appearing to ratify Adam’s decision to fall and die with his wife. The Milton of this Paradise Lost is a Christian humanist who believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of Milton’s masterpiece, Paradise Lost reveals itself in new formal configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.

Author : William Malin Porter
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803237063
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Classics and Paradise Lost written by William Malin Porter and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton?s early commentators?Henry Todd, Thomas Newton, Joseph Addison, and others?not only knew their classics well, they took them seriously as models of literary excellence and repositories of values. In the twentieth century, however, the classics have become mere ?background.? As a consequence, William M. Porter argues, not only is the foundational dimension of Milton?s poetry now hardly visible, even to scholars, but the potential of Milton?s poetry to revitalize the reading of the classics has been diminished. In this insightful study, Porter attempts once again to read both the classics and Milton?s epic poem sensitively and intelligently. He exposes the recklessly speculative and tendentious character of much earlier work on Milton?s allusions, in which allusions were promiscuously posited and in which Paradise Lost was too often regarded naively as triumphing over the classics. Porter demonstrates that Milton?s allusions, in which allusions to the classics, while fewer than has been supposed, are rich with wit, irony, and thought that can be grasped only by a reader with a double perspective.

Author : Louis Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107029465
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost written by Louis Schwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short, accessible essays from fifteen recognized Milton specialists touching on the most important topics and themes in Paradise Lost.

Author : Stephen B. Dobranski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316025683
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Milton written by Stephen B. Dobranski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton is one of the most important and influential writers in English literary history. The goal of this book is to make Milton's works more accessible and enjoyable by providing a comprehensive overview of the author's life, times and writings. It describes essential details from Milton's biography, explains some of the cultural and historical contexts in which he wrote, offers fresh analyses of his major pamphlets and poems - including Lycidas, Areopagitica and Paradise Lost - and describes in depth traditional and recent responses to his reputation and writings. Separate sections focus on important concepts or key passages from his major works to illustrate how readers can interpret - and get excited about - Milton's writings. This detailed and engaging introduction to Milton will help readers not only better understand the author's life and works but also better appreciate why Milton matters.