Milton : Paradise Lost

Klappentext This volume offers a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature! Milton's Paradise Lost. Zusammenfassung This volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton's imaginative daring! considers the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology! while situating Milton's great poem in its literary! religious! and political contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; The chronology of events in Paradise Lost; Part I. Paradise Lost in Milton's Career and Age: 1. 'Long choosing, and beginning late'; 2. Lycidas; 3. Writing in the English Revolution and the Restoration; 4. Milton's blindness; 5. The Christian Doctrine and Milton's theological heresies; Part II. Interpreting Paradise Lost: 6. 'Say first what cause': Paradise Lost and beginnings; 7. 'To raise/That Name': Paradise Lost and epic ambition; 8. The voice of the poet; 9. Answerable styles; 10. Satan: daring ambition and heroic ideology; 11. Hell: geographical place and internal state; 12. God, providence, and free will; 13. Milton's Eden; 14. Adam and Eve and human sexuality; 15. The material cosmos of Paradise Lost; 16. War in Heaven; 17. Creation; 18. The tragedy of the Fall; 19. Postlapsarian history and the inner paradise; Part III. The Literary Afterlife of Paradise Lost: 20. Revisions from the restoration to the romantics.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Loewenstein, David (University of Wisconsin Loewenstein
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.11.2003
• EAN: 9780521539791
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53979-1
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 196 mm x 10 mm
• Serien: Landmarks of World Literature; Landmarks of World Literature (New) S.; Landmarks of World Literature (New); Landmarks of World Literature; Landmarks of World Literature (New)
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Schule und Lernen > Lektüren/Interpretationen/Lektürehilfen