Milton: Paradise Lost - Brossura

Loewenstein, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 052153979X ISBN 13: 9780521539791

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Riassunto

This volume offers a stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature, Milton's Paradise Lost.

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Descrizione del libro

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.

Contenuti

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052153979X
• ISBN 13: 9780521539791
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 158
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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