Carnal Rhetoric : Milton's Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire

Lana Cable

ISBN 10: 0822315734 / ISBN 13: 9780822315735

Editore: Duke University Press Feb 1995, 1995

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Neuware - 'This is an exciting book to read. Cable's 'Carnal Rhetoric' is one of the foremost statements concerning the 'theory' of affective stylistics and the contribution that it provides to our understanding of Milton's writings and, by implication, the writings of others. By positing a sensory, emotional, and affective theory of metaphor and figurative language, Cable strikes out in a radically new direction in Milton studies.'--Albert Labriola, Duquesne University.

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• Titolo: Carnal Rhetoric : Milton's Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire
• Editore: Duke University Press Feb 1995
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0822315734
• ISBN 13: 9780822315735
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 152 A x 13 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 13 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 336 grammi

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Riassunto

In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton’s poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism. In Carnal Rhetoric, Lana Cable carries these investigations further by exploring the iconoclastic impulse in Milton’s works through detailed analyses of his use of metaphor. Building on a provocative iconoclastic theory of metaphor, she breaks new ground in the area of affective stylistics, not only as it pertains to the writings of Milton but also to all expressive language.
Cable traces the development of Milton’s iconoclastic poetics from its roots in the antiprelatical tracts, through the divorce tracts and Areopagitica, to its fullest dramatic representation in Eikonoklastes and Samson Agonistes. Arguing that, like every creative act, metaphor is by nature a radical and self-transgressing agent of change, she explores the site where metaphoric language and imaginative desire merge. Examining the demands Milton places on metaphor, particularly his emphasis on language as a vehicle for mortal redemption, Cable demonstrates the ways in which metaphor acts for him as that creative and radical agent of change. In the process, she reveals Milton’s engagement, at the deepest levels of linguistic creativity, with the early modern commitment to an imaginative and historic remaking of the world.
An insightful and synthetic book, Carnal Rhetoric will appeal to scholars of English literature, Milton, and the Renaissance, as well as to those with an interest in the theory of affective stylistics as it pertains to reader-response criticism, semantics, epistemology, and the philosophy and psychology of language.

Informazioni sull?autore

Lana Cable is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Albany.