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Auteur(s) : Leonard, John (1940-....)
Titre(s) : Faithful labourers [Texte imprimé] : a reception history of Paradise lost, 1667-1970 / John Leonard
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013
Description matérielle : 2 volumes (xv-853 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Vol. 1, Style and genre ; Vol. 2, Interpretative issues
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 820-835) and indexes
"Volume one attends to questions of style and genre. The first three chapters examine
the longstanding debate about Milton's grand style and the question of whether it
forfeits the native resources of English. Early critics saw Milton as the pre-eminent
poet of 'apt Numbers' and 'fit quantity', whose verse is 'apt' in the specific sense
of achieving harmony between sound and sense; twentieth-century anti-Miltonists faulted
Milton for divorcing sound from sense; late twentieth-century theorists have denied
the possibility that sound can 'enact' sense. These are extreme changes of critical
perception, and yet the story of how they came about has never been told. These chronological
chapters explain the roots of these changes and, in doing so, engage with the enduring
theoretical question of whether it is possible for sound to enact sense" ; "Volume
two considers interpretative issues, and each of the six chapters traces a key debate
in the interpretation of Paradise Lost. They engage with such questions as whether
Paradise Lost is an epic or an anti-epic, whether Satan runs away with the poem (and
whether it is good that he does so), what it means to be innocent (or fallen), and
whether Milton's poetry is hostile to women. A final chapter on the universe of Paradise
Lost makes the provocative argument that almost every commentator since the middle
of the eighteenth century has led readers astray by presenting Milton's universe as
the medieval model of Ptolemaic spheres. This assumption, which has fostered the notion
that Milton was backward-looking or anti-intellectual, rests upon a misreading of
three satirical lines. Milton's earliest critics recognized that he unequivocally
embraces the new astronomy of Kepler and Bruno"
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Faithful laborers
Sujet(s) : Milton, John (1608-1674). Paradise lost
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199681808 (v. 1) (hbk.). - ISBN 0199681805 (v. 1) (hbk.). - ISBN 9780199681815 (v. 2) (hbk.). - ISBN 0199681813 (v. 2) (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43835307b
Notice n° :
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