Milton's Visual Imagination

Imagery in Paradise Lost

AvStephen B. Dobranski

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton's imagery - traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic's narrative while expressing the author's heterodox beliefs. In particular, Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton's material philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton's epic.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-14
Mått:156 x 237 x 20 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107094390

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Stephen B. Dobranski is Distinguished University Professor of Early Modern Literature and Textual Studies at Georgia State University. He is the author of Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade (Cambridge, 1999) and Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005), which received the English Studies Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He also edited Milton in Context (Cambridge, 2010) and co-edited, with John Rumrich, Milton and Heresy (Cambridge, 1998), both of which received the Irene Samuel Memorial Award from the Milton Society of America.

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'Dobranski finds Milton to have drawn much more on the material, visible, workaday world around him, for the conveyance of those impossible descriptions, than has been recognized until now.' Roberta Klimt, The Times Literary Supplement

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1. Introduction: of things invisible; 2. Free will and God's scales; 3. Heaven's gates; 4. Pondering Satan's shield; 5. What do bad angels look like?; 6. Transported touch; 7. Clustering and curling locks; 8. Images of the future and the son.

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