A Companion to Milton

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Thomas N. Corns
John Wiley & Sons, 15 apr. 2008 - 548 pagina's
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The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion.

  • Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002.
  • Invites readers to explore and enjoy Milton's rich and fascinating work.
  • Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Milton's texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar.
  • Looks at literary production and cultural ideologies, issues of politics, gender and religion, individual Milton texts, other relevant contemporary texts and responses to Milton over time.
  • Devotes a whole chapter to each major poem, and four to Paradise Lost.
  • Conveys the excitement of recent developments in the field.

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Pagina 12
... conventions common to the Homeric and Virgilian epic tradition (Blessington 1979): invocations to the Muse; a beginning in medias res; an Achilles-like hero in Satan; a Homeric catalogue of Satan's generals; councils in hell and in.
Pagina 13
Homeric catalogue of Satan's generals; councils in hell and in heaven; epic pageants and games; supernatural powers ± God, the Son, and good and evil angels. The poem also has a fierce battle in heaven between two armies, replete with ...
Pagina 14
Like Aeneas, Satan departs from a burning city to conquer and lead his followers to a new kingdom; but he finds that hell is his proper kingdom, and that he carries it with him wherever he goes. Like Odysseus, he makes a perilous ...
Pagina 15
Hell is first presented in traditional terms with Satan and his crew chained on a lake of fire, but they soon rise up and begin to mine gold and gems, build a government centre (Pandñmonium), hold a parliament, send Satan on a mission ...
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And his portrayal of Satan contains a powerful critique of monarchy as civil idolatry, with allusion to Charles I and Charles II. By adopting a ten-book format, Milton associates his poem explicitly with the republican Lucan's ...

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Inhoudsopgave

PART II Politics and Religion
107
PART III Texts
211
PART IV Influences and Reputation
445
PART V Biography
481
Consolidated Bibliography
499
General Index
521
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Over de auteur (2008)

Thomas N. Corns is a Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. His many publications include Milton's Language (Blackwell, 1990), Uncloistered Virtue: English Political Literature, 1640-1660 (1992), and Regaining Paradise Lost (1994). He is also the editor of The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I (1999).

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TitelA Companion to Milton
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
RedacteurThomas N. Corns
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UitgeverJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN0470998628, 9780470998625
Lengte548 pagina's
  
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