Milton''s Visual Imagination - Imagery in Paradise Lost

Milton's Visual Imagination contends that Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.

Sommario

1. Introduction: of things invisible; 2. Free will and God's scales; 3. Heaven's gates; 4. Pondering Satan's shield; 5. What do bad angels look like?; 6. Transported touch; 7. Clustering and curling locks; 8. Images of the future and the son.

Info autore

Stephen B. Dobranski is Distinguished University Professor of Early Modern Literature and Textual Studies at Georgia State University. He is the author of Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade (Cambridge, 1999) and Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005), which received the English Studies Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He also edited Milton in Context (Cambridge, 2010) and co-edited, with John Rumrich, Milton and Heresy (Cambridge, 1998), both of which received the Irene Samuel Memorial Award from the Milton Society of America.

Riassunto

Critics have traditionally thought of John Milton as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen B. Dobranski, Stephen B. (Georgia State University) Dobranski, Dobranski Stephen B.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781107476240
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47624-0
• Pagine: 233
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700, Literary studies: poetry and poets