The Satanic EpicPrinceton University Press, 2003 - 382 עמודים The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 63
... Classical versus Christian 188 ( 2 ) Hate in Heaven 190 ( 3 ) The " Problem of Evil " 192 ( 4 ) Satan and Ancient Evils 195 ( s ) Allecto : Hell's Fury 196 ( 6 ) The Darkness of Hell 201 ( 7 ) " God created evil " 204 ( 8 ) The Language ...
... permission to rework earlier essays , I am grateful to the publishers of Comparative Literature , Etudes de Lettres , The International Journal for the Classical Tradition , Milton Quarterly , and SPELL . A version ( ix ) PREFACE.
... -79 . 13 John Guillory , Poetic Authority : Spenser , Milton , and Literary History ( New York : Columbia University Press , 1983 ) , pp . 146-71 , explores this image . a classical epic of heroic virtue and tragic fate , 6 INTRODUCTION.
... classical myth that limn the portrait of Satan and his followers or that underline the parallels with the Miltonic narrator : the Mulciber artist of 1.738-46 , the Pros- erpine story of 4.268-72 , or the Bellerophon reminder at 7.17-20 ...
... classical and biblical , but in its main outlines , and above all in its central character , Satan , it is Milton's invention . It is based on passages in Homer , but transformed in revealing ways . Consider first what happens in Iliad ...
תוכן
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SATAN | 24 |
1 The Old Enemy | 25 |
2 Ancient Myth and Epic | 28 |
3 Hesiod | 30 |
4 Apocalypses | 35 |
5 The satan | 37 |
6 The New Testament | 39 |
7 The Early Church | 43 |
3 The Problem of Evil | 192 |
4 Satan and Ancient Evils | 195 |
Hells Fury | 196 |
6 The Darkness of Hell | 201 |
7 God created evil | 204 |
8 The Language of Sin | 206 |
9 Evil Eve | 207 |
10 Openings | 209 |
8 Heresy | 45 |
9 Medieval Heresy | 49 |
10 Old English Genesis to Chaucer | 50 |
11 Satans Rebellion | 54 |
12 Warfare and Imperialism | 56 |
13 Elizabethan Drama | 60 |
14 Politics | 62 |
15 The Miltonic Moment | 64 |
16 Subversive Satan | 66 |
17 Critical Controversies | 69 |
THE EPIC VOICE | 77 |
2 Hope and Despair | 81 |
3 Dark designs | 86 |
4 Devils into Dwarfs | 87 |
S The Critical Need for the Narrator | 90 |
6 Epic Similes | 100 |
7 Erring | 105 |
8 Parliamentary Devils | 108 |
FOLLOW THE LEADER | 114 |
1 Chaos | 115 |
2 Approaching Paradise | 124 |
3 Satans Entry into Paradise | 129 |
5 Sex | 134 |
MY SELF AM HELL | 147 |
1 Niphates | 148 |
2 Faustus and the Abyss | 152 |
3 God in Satan | 155 |
4 Hell in Heaven | 157 |
5 Witchcraft | 160 |
SATANS REBELLION | 167 |
1 Rebellion in Hesiod | 170 |
2 Gods Creative Word | 171 |
3 Satans Theology | 176 |
4 Sources of Satans Motive | 180 |
5 Hebrews | 183 |
6 Psalm 2 | 185 |
THE LANGUAGE OF EVIL | 188 |
2 Hate in Heaven | 190 |
11 Perverse | 212 |
12 Odium Dei | 214 |
OF MANS FIRST DIS | 217 |
1 Dis | 218 |
2 Satans dark suggestions | 221 |
3 Quibbles | 224 |
4 Vergil | 228 |
S Ovid | 229 |
6 Dante | 233 |
7 Difference | 235 |
HOMER IN MILTON THE ATTENDANCE MOTIF AND THE GRACES | 239 |
SATAN TEMPTER | 259 |
2 Stupidly good | 261 |
3 Sexual Serpents | 263 |
4 Discourse | 265 |
5 The Seductive Text | 268 |
6 Commentators | 272 |
7 What delight | 277 |
8 Satans Sewers | 280 |
9 Satanic Verses | 282 |
IF THEY WILL HEAR | 285 |
AT THE SIGN OF THE DOVE AND SERPENT | 301 |
1 Irenaeus | 303 |
2 The Wisdom of the Serpent | 304 |
3 Image | 305 |
4 The Brazen Serpent | 308 |
5 The Meaning of History | 309 |
6 Christ and Serpent | 311 |
THE STRUCTURES OF PARADISE LOST | 314 |
SIGNS PORTENTOUS | 329 |
2 Disastrous twilight | 332 |
3 Editors | 338 |
4 SunSon | 341 |
5 Reading Signs | 342 |
6 Good with bad expect to hear | 344 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 349 |
371 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
קטעים בולטים
הפניות לספר זה
The Myth of Evil: Demonizing the Enemy <span dir=ltr>Phillip Cole</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2006 |
Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers <span dir=ltr>Shannon Miller</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2008 |