Milton's Uncertain Eden: Understanding Place in Paradise LostRoutledge, 2007 - 190 עמודים This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have in common the idea that the difficulty of the relationship of reciprocity that poetic subjects often expect from their environment destabilizes those subjects' understanding, not only of environment, but of themselves. The study explores destabilization as it affects aspects of the poem from Adam's sense of the landscape of Eden and the meaning of the Fall itself, to the relationship the ambiguous landscapes of Paradise Lost create between Adam and Eve, the poet and the reader; all of whom are struggling to make sense of the same problematically described places. To a surprisingly large extent, the description of prelapsarian Eden and the events that go on within it have in common a failed attempt to understand the nature of the surroundings. In observing the centrality and difficultly of this poetic discourse of place, the problem of place is found at the very heart of the Fall. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 30
... moral function - but its figural function overwhelms its moral function . This book's principal thesis is that in Paradise Lost as a whole as in this pas- sage the figural force of descriptions of place , and particularly of Eden ...
... moral points in the narrative . Despite Para- dise Lost's explicit interest in the moral questions of the Fall , in the moment those questions tend to be deflected toward a question of description . Indeed , the difficulties of the ...
... moral or existential . The fantasy clarifies the change Adam is discussing ; when he says " those heav'nly shapes / will dazzle now this earthly " ( 1083 ) , the force of " now " is that after the fall the meaning of " earthly " has ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Milton's Uncertain Eden: Understanding Place in Paradise Lost <span dir=ltr>Andrew Mattison</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2013 |
Milton's Uncertain Eden: Understanding Place in Paradise Lost <span dir=ltr>Andrew Mattison</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2013 |