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Item Details
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DESTABILIZING MILTON
PARADISE LOST AND THE POETICS OF INCERTITUDE |
By: |
Peter C. Herman |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£89.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
140396761X |
ISBN 13: |
9781403967619 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE USA |
Pub. date: |
1 May, 2005 |
Edition: |
2005 ed. |
Pages: |
239 |
Description: |
"Destablizing Milton" challenges the conventional notion of John Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioned certainty, and proposes that in his late poetry, Milton puts into question his earlier positions on God, gender, and politics without providing certain answers. |
Synopsis: |
Destabilizing Milton challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty. In Paradise Lost , Milton confronts the failure of the Revolution by creating a poem that refuses to grant the reader any interpretive stability or certainty. Doubts can no longer be contained and concepts once marked by a 'fundamental immobility' now seem unstable at best. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes equally reflect Milton's deep ambivalences after the collapse of the Republic. Far from confirming his earlier ideals, in his later poetry, Milton subjects his culture's most cherished beliefs, such as the goodness of God, to withering scrutiny, while refusing the comfort of orthodox answers. |
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biography |
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US |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
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Returnable |
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