Milton''s Scriptural Reasoning - Narrative and Protestant Toleration

Informationen zum Autor Phillip J. Donnelly is Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors College at Baylor University! where he teaches in the Great Texts Program and the English Department. Klappentext New readings of Milton's major poems provide important new perspectives on his aesthetics! theology and politics. Zusammenfassung Phillip J. Donnelly transforms our common perceptions about Milton's writing! challenging the traditional assumption that the poet shared our modern view that reason is a capacity whose purpose is to control nature. Through new readings of Paradise Lost! Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes! this book provides fresh perspectives on Milton's aesthetics! theology and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgments; Abbreviations and editions; 1. Introduction: scriptural reasoning; Part I. Scriptural Reasoning in Milton's Prose: 2. Reason, rhetoric, and educational reading; 3. Monism and Protestant toleration; Part II. Biblicist Rhetoric and Ontology in Paradise Lost: Part II introduction; 4. Divine justice and divine filiation; 5. Divine kingship; 6. Rational battle; 7. Rational allegory and gender; Part III. Biblicist Poetics and Hermeneutic Ethics: Part III introduction; 8. Biblical metanarrative as rule of faith; 9. Paradise Regained as rule of charity; 10. Samson Agonistes as personal drama; Notes; Subject index; Index of scripture references.

Product details

• Authors: Phillip J. Donnelly, Phillip J. (Baylor University Donnelly, Donnelly Phillip J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2009
• EAN: 9780521509732
• ISBN: 978-0-521-50973-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Religion: general, Theology, Christianity, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets