Milton S Uncertain Eden

Author : Andrew Mattison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135860677

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Milton's Uncertain Eden by Andrew Mattison Pdf

This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have in common the idea that the difficulty of the relationship of reciprocity that poetic subjects often expect from their environment destabilizes those subjects’ understanding, not only of environment, but of themselves. The study explores destabilization as it affects aspects of the poem from Adam’s sense of the landscape of Eden and the meaning of the Fall itself, to the relationship the ambiguous landscapes of Paradise Lost create between Adam and Eve, the poet and the reader; all of whom are struggling to make sense of the same problematically described places. To a surprisingly large extent, the description of prelapsarian Eden and the events that go on within it have in common a failed attempt to understand the nature of the surroundings. In observing the centrality and difficultly of this poetic discourse of place, the problem of place is found at the very heart of the Fall.

Author : Paul Joseph Zajac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009271660

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Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature by Paul Joseph Zajac Pdf

Unearthing a little-studied Reformation discourse of contentment, this book shows its surprising significance in Renaissance literature.

Author : Aleida Auld
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003816225

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Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition by Aleida Auld Pdf

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time. Aleida Auld argues that the editorial tradition provides privileged access to the reception of early modern literature, informing our understanding of certain reconfigurations and sometimes helping to produce them between their time and our own. At stake are reconfigurations of oeuvre and authorship, the relationship between the author and work, the relationship between authors, and the author’s own role in establishing an editorial tradition. Ultimately, this study recognizes that the editorial tradition is a stabilizing force while asserting that it may also be a source of strange and provocative reconceptions of early modern authors and their works in the present day. Scholars and students of early modern literature will benefit from this approach to editing as a form of reception that encompasses all the editorial decisions that are necessary to ‘put forth’ a text.

Author : Andrew Mattison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611475975

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The Unimagined in the English Renaissance by Andrew Mattison Pdf

When we read poetry, we tend to believe that we are getting a glimpse of the interior of the poet's mind--pictures from the poet's imagination relayed through the representative power of language. But poets themselves sometimes express doubt (usually indirectly) that poetic language has the capability or the purpose of revealing these images. This book examines description in Renaissance poetry, aiming to reveal its complexity and variability, its distinctiveness from prose description, and what it can tell us about Renaissance ways of thinking about the visible world and the poetic mind. Recent criticism has tended to address representation as a product of culture; The Unimagined in the English Renaissance argues to the contrary that attention to description as a literary phenomenon can complicate its cultural context by recognizing the persistent problems of genre and literary history. The book focuses on Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Milton, who had very different aims as poets but shared a degree of skepticism about imagistic representation. For these poets, description can obscure as much as it makes visible, and can create whole categories of existence that are outside of visibility altogether.

Author : Maggie Kilgour
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400860784

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From Communion to Cannibalism by Maggie Kilgour Pdf

Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic to literature in that it underlies other polarities such as those between form and content, the literal and metaphorical, source and model. Kilgour demonstrates the usefulness of incorporation as a subsuming metaphor that describes the construction and then the dissolution of opposites or separate identities in a text: the distinction between outside and inside, essentially that of eater and eaten, is both absolute and unreciprocal and yet fades in the process of ingestion--as suggested in the saying "you are what you eat.". Kilgour explores here a fable of identity central to Western thought that represents duality as the result of a fall from a primal symbiotic unity to which men have longed to return. However, while incorporation can be desired as the end of alienation, it can also be feared as a form of regression through which individual identity is lost. Beginning with the works of Homer, Ovid, Augustine, and Dante, Kilgour traces the ambivalent attitude toward incorporation throughout Western literature. She examines the Eucharist as a model for internalization in Renaissance texts, addresses the incorporation of past material in the nineteenth century, and concludes with a discussion of the role of incorporation in cultural theory today. Originally published in 1990. 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.

Author : Chris Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198816874

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Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety by Chris Barrett Pdf

This fascinating study explores how Renaissance-era maps fascinated people with their beauty and precision yet they also unnerved readers and writers. The volume shows how late 16th and 17th century poets channelled the anxieties provoked by maps and mapping, creating a new way of thinking about how literature represents space

Author : Liz Herbert McAvoy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 9781843845980

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The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary by Liz Herbert McAvoy Pdf

During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and symbolic qualities. This study focuses on the more complex metaphysical functions and meanings attached to it between 1100 and 1400 - and, in particular, those associated with the gardens of Eden and the Song of Songs. Drawing on contemporary theories of gender, gardens, landscape and space, it traces specifically the resurfacing and reworking of the idea and image of the enclosed garden within the writings of medieval holy women and other female-coded texts. In so doing, it presents the enclosed garden as generator of a powerfully gendered hermeneutic imprint within the medieval religious imaginary - indeed, as an alternative "language" used to articulate those highly complex female-coded approaches to God that came to dominate late-medieval religiosity. The book also responds to the "eco-turn" in our own troubled times that attempts to return the non-human to the centre of public and private discourse. The texts under scrutiny therefore invite responses as both literary and "garden" spaces where form often reflects content, and where their authors are also diligent "gardeners" the apocryphal Lives of Adam and Eve, for example; the horticulturally-inflected Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenburg and the "green" philosophies of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias; the visionary writings of Gertrude the Great and Mechthild of Hackeborn collaborating within their Helfta nunnery; the Middle English poem, Pearl; and multiple reworkings of the deeply problematic and increasingly sexualized garden enclosing the biblical figure of Susanna.

Author : Thomas Budd SHAW
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018210326

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The Student's Manual of English Literature. A History of English Literature. ... A New Edition [of “Outlines of English Literature”], Enlarged and Rewritten. Edited, with Notes and Illustrations, by W. Smith by Thomas Budd SHAW Pdf

Author : John S. Tanner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Anxiety in literature
ISBN : 9780195072044

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Anxiety in Eden by John S. Tanner Pdf

Tanner uses Kierkegaard's thought, in particular his theory of anxiety, to enrich a bold new reading of Milton's Paradise Lost. He argues that for Milton and Kierkegaard, the path to sin and to salvation lies through anxiety, and that both writers include anxiety within the compass of paradise. The first half of the book explores anxiety in Eden before the Fall, original sin, the aetiology of evil, and prelapsarian knowledge. The second half examines anxiety after the Fall, offering original insights into such issues as the demonic personality, remorse, despair, and faith.

Author : Paul Hammond
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198810117

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Milton's Complex Words by Paul Hammond Pdf

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work. This book explores the specific meanings which Milton develops around key words in Paradise Lost. Some of these are theological or philosophical terms (e.g. 'evil', 'grace', 'reason'); others are words which shape the imagined world of the poem (e.g. 'dark', 'fall', 'within'); yet others are small words or even prefixes which subtly move the argument in new directions (e.g. 'if', 'not', 're-'). Milton seems to expect his readers to be alert to the special semantic field which he creates around such words, often by infusing them with biblical and literary connotations, and activating their etymological roots; alert also to the patterns created by the repetitions of such words, and particularly to their diverse use (and often their blatant misuse) by different characters. To understand the migrations and malleability of key words is part of the education of Milton's reader.

Author : Thomas Budd Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPLE2

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A History of English Literature by Thomas Budd Shaw Pdf

Author : Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00101891

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A history of English literature by Shaw Pdf

Author : Thomas B. Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100002917X

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A History of English Literature by Thomas B. Shaw Pdf

Author : Thomas Budd Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z219886201

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A History of English Literature. ; with Notesand Illustrations by William Smith by Thomas Budd Shaw Pdf

Author : Thomas Budd Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11372192

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A History of English Literature by Thomas B. Shaw by Thomas Budd Shaw Pdf