Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000811107
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Book Synopsis Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton by : Brian Russell Graham

Download or read book Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton written by Brian Russell Graham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s and Blake’s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in Blake’s epic poem Milton. With the exception of what we learn about in the part of the poem known as the Bard’s Song, Blake’s Milton is dedicated to providing an incredibly detailed account of the numerous facets of the instant of time immediately prior to apocalypse, an instant in which Milton is the protagonist, and Blake himself a participant. This study explores how in the poem sacred history proceeds towards and through the instant by means of the speech act. This extended commentary is intended for not just Blake scholars but also the common reader who wishes to approach Blake’s brief epic for the first time. For scholars, this monograph offers a full account of a crucial but previously unexplored theme in the scholarship about Milton. For the common reader, it offers a comprehensive introduction to what Northrop Frye called ‘one of the most gigantic imaginative achievements in English poetry’.

Creating States

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802005625
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Creating States by : Angela Esterhammer

Download or read book Creating States written by Angela Esterhammer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the language of visionary poetry, making use of the principles of speech-act philosophy to analyze the creative properties of utterance from the Bible to the work of Milton and Blake.

Poetic Form in Blake's MILTON

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400868483
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis Poetic Form in Blake's MILTON by : Susan Fox

Download or read book Poetic Form in Blake's MILTON written by Susan Fox and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake's two finished epics have been widely regarded as combinations of brilliant set pieces which yield to no systematic rhetorical criticism. Susan Fox contests this view, discovering in Milton an elaborate verbal structure that is fully congruent with the poem's philosophy. She has made the first full exposition of the formal principles of a late Blake poem, and it suggests that the late prophecies are as profound in their artistic structures as they are in their thematic ones. The author begins by tracing throughout Blake's poetry the development of the techniques found in Milton. She then provides an analysis in two chapters organized, as she perceives the poem to be, in parallel three-part units. Her examination reveals the exhaustive parallelism of the poem's books, as well as more local devices such as paired stanzas and circular rhetoric. The rhetorical pattern which emerges raises several major thematic issues which are treated in the concluding chapter. In demonstrating the coherence and control of the intricate formal patterns of Milton, this study provides a new measure of Blake's late verbal art. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Written Within and Without

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Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Written Within and Without by : David E. James

Download or read book Written Within and Without written by David E. James and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Milton» was the means whereby Blake clarified for himself both the nature of his own prophetic vocation and the formal qualities of the purely inspirational poetry it demanded. The book examines the distinction between God and Satan in Blake's critique of John Milton, the style and structure of the new kind of poetry that Blake achieves, including the structure of its symbolism, the apocalyptic function of the poem in Blake's life, and the function it implies for itself in the imaginative experience of its true readers.

Milton ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Book Synopsis Milton ... by : William Blake

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Milton and Music

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000881547
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Book Synopsis Milton and Music by : Seth Herbst

Download or read book Milton and Music written by Seth Herbst and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton’s intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in the universe—even the human soul—is made of matter. The Milton who emerges is a forward-thinking visionary who leaped past his contemporaries in conceiving music as a material phenomenon that exists simultaneously as sound and metaphor. Part II: Milton in Music follows two daring composers in investigating whether Milton’s visionary concept of music can be realized in actual musical sound. In Samson, an oratorio adaptation of Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Handel resists Miltonic music theory, suggesting that music struggles to function as both sound and metaphor. By contrast, the twentieth-century Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki composes an iconoclastic opera of Paradise Lost that develops a soundworld of fractured dissonance in which music acts as both sound and metaphor. Recovering Milton’s own high estimation of music from a critical tradition that has subordinated it to the poet’s political and religious convictions, Herbst reveals Milton as an interdisciplinary thinker and overlooked figure in the study of words and music. Driven by bold claims about the comparative treatment of literature and music, Milton and Music revises our understanding of what makes this canonical poet an intellectual revolutionary.

William Blake's Milton, a Poem

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Creating States

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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487596758
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Book Synopsis Creating States by : Angela Esterhammer

Download or read book Creating States written by Angela Esterhammer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts. Creating States examines the visionary poetry of John Milton and William Blake, using a critical approach based on principles of speech-act theory as articulated by J.L. Austin, John Searle, and Emile Benveniste. Angela Esterhammer proposes a new way of understanding the relationship between these two poets, while at the same time evaluating the role of speech-act philosophy in the reading of visionary poetry and Romantic literature. Esterhammer distinguishes between the 'sociopolitical performative,' the speech act which is defined by a societal context and derives power from institutional authority, and the `phenomenological performative,' language which is invested with the power to posit or create because of the individual will and consciousness of the speaker. Analysing texts such as The Reason of Church-Government, Paradise Lost, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem, Esterhammer traces the parallel evolution of Milton and Blake from writers of political and anti-prelatical tracts to poets who, having failed in their attempts to alter historical circumstances through a direct address to their contemporaries, reaffirm their faith in individual visionary consciousness and the creative word – while continuing to use the forms of a socially or politically performative language.

Supernatural Creatures in Arabic Literary Tradition

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100383311X
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Supernatural Creatures in Arabic Literary Tradition by : Ahmed Al-Rawi

Download or read book Supernatural Creatures in Arabic Literary Tradition written by Ahmed Al-Rawi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the cultural meaning of several supernatural creatures in Arabia, tracing the historical development of these creatures and their recent representations in the Western world. Utilizing a variety of old and new Arabic, English and French sources, the text explores creatures including the Ghoul and its derivations, the Rukh bird, and the dragon. Unlike other texts, which primarily focus on Genies or Jinns, this volume explores other supernatural and mythical creatures that have been popular in the Middle East and Arabia for centuries but are less known to Western audiences. Dr. Al-Rawi argues that many of these creatures have pre-Islamic roots, and that they served an important function in connecting the past with the present, offering a popular vehicle to articulate and imagine the supernatural dimension of existence which helps in consolidating religious views.

Blake's Milton

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Publisher : Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Blake's Milton by : John Howard

Download or read book Blake's Milton written by John Howard and published by Rutherford [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare in the Present

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000800857
Total Pages : 91 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare in the Present by : Philip Goldfarb Styrt

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Present written by Philip Goldfarb Styrt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s plays to post-Trump America. It looks at American politics through the lens of Shakespeare, not simply equating figures in the contemporary world to Shakespearean characters, but showing how the broader conditions of Shakespeare’s imagined worlds reflect and inform our own. Clearly written, in a direct and engaging style, it shows that reading Shakespeare with our contemporary Washington in mind can enrich our understanding of both his works and our world. Shakespeare wrote for his own time, but we always read him in our present. As such, the way we read him now is always affected by our own understanding of our own political world. This book provides quick critical analyses of Shakespeare’s plays and contemporary American politics while serving as an introduction for undergraduates and general readers to this kind of topical, presentist criticism of Shakespeare.

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000861201
Total Pages : 108 pages
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Book Synopsis Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity by : Beverley Nadin

Download or read book Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity written by Beverley Nadin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound and sense. Observing Donaghy’s critical perspectives on orality, tradition, and memory, and Don Paterson’s systems of collective relation and “lyric unity”, this volume explores the intellectual curiosity of both poets from the classical to the contemporary, in relation to music, literature, philosophy, scientific thought, and the rituals and austerities of the transcendent. This text also explores the tensions occupying their work between craft and spontaneity, and between the intellect and intuition, that arise from a fundamental respect for form as the poet’s guiding principle. Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity exposes persuasive rhetoric and pursues a nuanced understanding of the enigmatic complexity of poetic language and its critical context. This volume interrogates valuable insights into form, language, and poetics, and clarifies and reframes these, with a focus on the creative process, for readers interested in poetry and the practical and critical perspectives of these poets.

Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100082795X
Total Pages : 121 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity by : Shawn Smith

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity written by Shawn Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the word "pity" contained a broader range of meaning than it does in modern English, and was often associated with ideas such as mercy, compassion, charity, pardon, and clemency. This cluster of ideas provides Shakespeare’s characters with a rich range of possibilities for engaging some of humanity’s deepest emotional commitments, in which pity can be seen as a powerful stimulus for fostering social harmony, love, and forgiveness. However, Shakespeare also dramatizes pity’s potential for deception, when the appeal to pity is not genuine, and conceals contrary motives of vengeance and cruelty. As Shakespeare’s works remain relevant for modern audiences and readers, so too does his dramatization of the powerful ways in which emotions such as pity remain essential to our understanding of our shared humanity and of our awareness of compassion’s role in our own private and civic lives.

Literature, Education, and Society

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000816826
Total Pages : 125 pages
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Book Synopsis Literature, Education, and Society by : Charles F. Altieri

Download or read book Literature, Education, and Society written by Charles F. Altieri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s classrooms, educators specializing in literature and the arts have found themselves facing an escalating crisis. Most obviously, they encounter serious budget cuts, largely because students tend in increasing numbers to prefer majoring in disciplines that provide clear, practical knowledge and the promise of relatively lucrative careers. These educators have addressed the crisis by stressing how the arts can also provide valuable forms of knowledge by testing moral values and by developing the skills of critical thinking required to understand the cost of apparently perennial social problems. Literature, Education, and Society offers a fresh strategy by focusing not on knowledge but on how literature and the arts provide distinctive domains of experience that stress significant values not typically provided by other disciplines. Practical disciplines tend to treat experiences as instances for which we learn to provide interpretive generalizations, making knowledge possible and helping us establish concrete programs for acting in accord with what we come to know. But the arts do not encourage generalizing from particulars. Instead they emphasize how to appreciate the particulars for qualities like sensitivity, intensity, and the capacity to solicit empathy. In order to dramatize this crucial difference, this book distinguishes sharply between a focus on "experience of" what solicits knowledge and a focus on "experience as" which encourages careful attention to what can be embedded in particular experiences. Then the book characterizes the making of art as an act of doubling. where the making fashions some aspect of experience and invites self-conscious participation in the intensity provided by the particular work. After exploring several aspects of doubling, the book turns to the vexed question of ethics, arguing that while this theory cannot persuade us that the arts improve behavior, its stress on art’s purposive structuring of experience can affect how people construct values, something essential to education itself.

Rilke’s Hands

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ISBN 13 : 1000843890
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Book Synopsis Rilke’s Hands by : Harold Schweizer

Download or read book Rilke’s Hands written by Harold Schweizer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke’s poetry as a musician might play Debussy’s Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke’s gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer. The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, hands—agents of gentleness throughout Rilke’s poetry—enfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by flowers, then by girls’ hands, then by angels, the beloved, the poor, the dying and the dead, animals, birds, dogs, fountains, things, vanishings. The purpose of this essay is to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades Rilke’s work, how his poetry might gently inspire us to become more gentle people.

This Facimile of Blake's Milton

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis This Facimile of Blake's Milton by : William Blake

Download or read book This Facimile of Blake's Milton written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009285181
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire by : Matthew Leporati

Download or read book Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire written by Matthew Leporati and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.