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Total Pages : 71 pages
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Download or read book Milton and the Theme of Fame written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. DuRocher
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0820705810
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Milton's Rival Hermeneutics written by Richard J. DuRocher and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent critical conversation has described John Milton’s major works as sites of uncertainty, irreconcilability, or even confusion—as texts that actually reflect radical incoherence and openness. These newer critical voices posit, moreover, that traditional critics must strain to find coherence and authorial control in Milton’s poetry. Richard DuRocher and Margaret Thickstun, together with an esteemed group of Milton scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical backgrounds, respond to this challenge. While accepting the presence of uncertainty and welcoming the multiple perspectives that Milton builds into his works, this volume offers a variety of nuanced approaches to Milton’s texts. As these eleven essays demonstrate, Milton’s own acts of interpretation compel readers to reflect not only on the rival hermeneutics they find within his works but also on their own hermeneutic principles and choices—an interpretive complexity that is integral to his poetry’s enduring appeal. Thus, each of the contributors takes up the problem of this interpretive dilemma in some way: several explore Milton’s own engagement with the texts of Scripture and the classics; some examine the ways in which Milton represents the process of interpretation in his narrative poems; and still others are intrigued by the challenges that Milton’s works present for the reader’s own interpretive skills. Milton’s Rival Hermeneutics, in responding directly to the “incertitude critics” of Milton, will be of interest to those on all sides of this debate and will certainly redirect the ongoing conversation.
Author : George Sherburn
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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book The Early Popularity of Milton's Minor Poems written by George Sherburn and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Milton
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Total Pages : 66 pages
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Download or read book Lycidas written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596053720
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Spirits in Bondage written by C. S. Lewis and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: @Published in 1919 when Lewis was only twenty, these early poems give an insight into the author's youthful agnosticism. The poems are written in various metrical forms, but are unified by a central idea, expressing his conviction that nature was malevolent and beauty the only true spirituality. Preface by Walter Hooper.@@
Author : Julianne Werlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198869460
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Writing at the Origin of Capitalism written by Julianne Werlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture. Writing at the Origin of Capitalism describes how economic change in early modern England created new patterns of textual production and circulation with lasting consequences for English literature. Synthesizing research in book and media history, including investigations of manuscript and print, with Marxist historical theory, this volume demonstrates that England's transition to capitalism had a decisive impact on techniques of writing, rates of literacy, and modes of reception, and, in turn, on the form and style of texts. Individual chapters discuss the impact of market integration on linguistic standardization and the rise of a uniform English prose; the growth of a popular literary market alongside a national market in cheap commodities; and the decline of literary patronage with the monarchy's loosening grip on trade regulation, among other subjects. Peddlers' routes and price integration, monopoly licenses and bills of exchange, all prove vital for understanding early modern English writing. Each chapter reveals how books and documents were embedded in wider economic processes, and as a result, how the origin of capitalism constituted a revolutionary event in the history of English literature.
Author : John Milton
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Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Milton
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Total Pages : 532 pages
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Download or read book The Poetical Works. With a Life of the Author written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mindele Anne Treip
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185661
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Allegorical Poetics and the Epic written by Mindele Anne Treip and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary allegory has deep roots in early reading and interpretation of Scripture and classical epic and myth. In this substantial study, Mindele Treip presents an overview of the history and theory of allegorical exegesis upon Scripture, poetry, and especially the epic from antiquity to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, with close focus on the Renaissance and on the triangular literary relationship of Tasso, Spenser, and Milton. Exploring the different ways in which the term allegory has been understood, Treip finds significant continuities-within-differences in a wide range of critical writings, including texts of postclassical, patristic and rabbinical writers, medieval writers, notably Dante, Renaissance theorists such as Coluccio Salutati, Bacon, Sidney, John Harrington and rhetoricians and mythographers, and the neoclassical critics of Italy, England and France, including Le Bossu. In particular, she traces the evolving theories on allegory and the epic of Torquato Tasso through a wide spectrum of his major discourses, shorter tracts and letters, giving full translations. Treip argues that Milton wrote, as in part did Spenser, within the definitive framework of the mixed historical-allegorical epic erected by Tasso, and she shows Spenser's and Milton's epics as significantly shaped by Tasso's formulations, as well as by his allegorical structures and images in the Gerusalemme liberata. In the last part of her study Treip addresses the complex problematics of reading Paradise Lost as both a consciously Reformation poem and one written within the older epic allegorical tradition, and she also illustrates Milton's innovative use of biblical "Accommodation" theory so as to create a variety of radical allegorical metaphors in his poem. This study brings together a wide range of critical issues—the Homeric-Virgilian tradition of allegorical reading of epic; early Renaissance theory of all poetry as "translation" or allegorical metaphor; midrashic linguistic techniques in the representation of the Word; Milton's God; neoclassical strictures on Milton's allegory and allegory in general—all of these are brought together in new and comprehensive perspective.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN 13 : 1467775975
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Paradise Regained written by John Milton and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to the epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton's Paradise Regained describes the temptation of Christ. After Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden, Satan and the fallen angels stay on earth to lead people astray. But when God sends Jesus, the promised savior, to earth, Satan prepares himself for battle. As an adult, Jesus goes into the wilderness to gain strength and courage. He fasts for 40 days and nights, after which Satan tempts him with food, power, and riches. But Jesus refuses all these things, and Satan is defeated by the glory of God. This is an unabridged version of Milton's classic work, which was first published in England in 1671.
Author : Samuel Johnson
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Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A Dictionnary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788736842
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Milton and the English Revolution written by Christopher Hill and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book Christopher Hill used the learning gathered in a lifetime's study of seventeenth-century England to carry out a major reassessment of Milton as man, politician, poet, and religious thinker. The result is a Milton very different from most popular representations: instead of a gloomy, sexless "Puritan", we have a dashingly thinker, branded with the contemporary reputation of a libertine.
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307419487
Total Pages : 1410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton written by John Milton and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides new modern-spelling versions of Milton’s texts, expert commentary, and a wealth of other features that will please even the most dedicated students of Milton’s canon. Edited by a trio of esteemed scholars, this volume is the definitive Milton for our time. In these pages you will find all of Milton’s verse, from masterpieces such as Paradise Lost–widely viewed as the finest epic poem in the English language–to shorter works such as the Nativity Ode, Lycidas,, A Masque and Samson Agonistes. Milton’s non-English language sonnets, verses, and elegies are accompanied by fresh translations by Gordon Braden. Among the newly edited and authoritatively annotated prose selections are letters, pamphlets, political tracts, essays such as Of Education and Areopagitica, and a generous portion of his heretical Christian Doctrine. These works reveal Milton’s passionate advocacy of controversial positions during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth and Restoration periods. With his deep learning and the sensual immediacy of his language, Milton creates for us a unique bridge to the cultures of classical antiquity and medieval and Renaissance Christianity. With this in mind, the editors give careful attention to preserving the vibrant energy of Milton’s verse and prose, while making the relatively unfamiliar aspects of his writing accessible to modern readers. Notes identify the old meanings and roots of English words, illuminate historical contexts–including classical and biblical allusions–and offer concise accounts of the author’s philosophical and political assumptions. This edition is a consummate work of modern literary scholarship.
Author : Samuel Johnson
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Total Pages : 1472 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Milton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Jonson
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Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Timber; Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Reich
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Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book The Narrative Functions of Repetition in John Milton's Paradise Regained written by Angela Reich and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers iteration as an operational mode of presentation. This work falls into categories such as: the active manipulation of the telling of events through time in anachronic groupings; the re-telling of stories by different characters for the sake of reader perception; and the manipulation of time in the use of prophecy.
