Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation

Reading through the Spirit

AvDavid Ainsworth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation: Reading through the Spirit constructs a musical methodology for interpreting literary text drawn out of John Milton’s poetry and prose. Analyzing the linkage between music and the Holy Spirit in Milton’s work, it focuses on harmony and its relationship to Milton’s theology and interpretative practices. Linking both the Spirit and poetic music to Milton’s understanding of teleology, it argues that Milton uses musical metaphor to capture the inexpressible characteristics of the divine. The book then applies these musical tools of reading to examine the non-trinitarian union between Father, Son, and Spirit in Paradise Lost, argues that Adam and Eve’s argument does not break their concord, and puts forward a reading of Samson Agonistes based upon pity and grace.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367178321

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Religiös och sakral musik inom Kultur
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David Ainsworth is Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, and part of the faculty of the Hudson Strode Program for Renaissance Studies housed there. His first book, Milton and the Spiritual Reader: Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England was published by Routledge in 2008, and he has published articles in journals including Milton Quarterly, Religion and Literature, and SEL.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionSpiritual ReadingMusical ReadingThree Approaches for Musical ReadingHarmonyDissonance and DiscordSolo and Choral Song1 Spiritual HarmonyMusic with a PurposeHeavenly Harmony and the SpiritHearing the Inexpressible: Music and Transcendent Indefinition2 Spiritual HermeneuticsThe Spirit’s Role in ReadingGod, the Spirit, and Truth3 Spiritual and Musical TeleologyThe Teleology of the SpiritMusic as Metaphor: Playing Poetic Games4 Harmonious ReadingHarmony and Milton’s TrinityConcord, Discord, and Marriage5 Music and Literary InterpretationReading Samson Agonistes Musically"He may dispense with me or thee:" Concord and Discord with GodDying is Easy; Harmony is HardConclusion