Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and PoeticsUniversity of Chicago Press, 1993 - 144 pages In this graceful and compelling book, Regina Schwartz presents a powerful reading of Paradise Lost by tracing the structure of the poem to the pattern of "repeated beginnings" found in the Bible. In both works, the world order is constantly threatened by chaos. By drawing on both the Bible and the more contemporary works of, among others, Freud, Lacan, Ricoeur, Said, and Derrida, Schwartz argues that chaos does not simply threaten order, but rather, chaos inheres in order. "A brilliant study that quietly but powerfully recharacterizes many of the contexts of discussion in Milton criticism. Particularly noteworthy is Schwartz's ability to introduce advanced theoretical perspectives without ever taking the focus of attention away from the dynamics and problematics of Milton's poem."—Stanley Fish |
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... poem . As Milton's acknowledged chief debt is to the Bible , mine in reading him is to Freud , the thinker of eros and thanatos , of the life and death drives , in our time.2 Milton was fascinated that the tree of death and the tree of ...
... poem . As Milton's acknowledged chief debt is to the Bible , mine in reading him is to Freud , the thinker of eros and thanatos , of the life and death drives , in our time.2 Milton was fascinated that the tree of death and the tree of ...
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... Chaos ( I. 1-10 , my emphasis ) This inversion of the apparent Biblical order of creation and fall obtains throughout the poem : only after we meet the fallen angels in Books I and II do we hear Uriel's account 2 Introduction.
... Chaos ( I. 1-10 , my emphasis ) This inversion of the apparent Biblical order of creation and fall obtains throughout the poem : only after we meet the fallen angels in Books I and II do we hear Uriel's account 2 Introduction.
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... poem . This large structural principle is writ small throughout Paradise Lost . Light repeatedly infuses plagues of darkness , and the exoduses follow the exiles . Satan's journey through the darkness of chaos brings him to the ...
... poem . This large structural principle is writ small throughout Paradise Lost . Light repeatedly infuses plagues of darkness , and the exoduses follow the exiles . Satan's journey through the darkness of chaos brings him to the ...
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... poetic shape : as the Bible ritualizes the creation in the sabbath , so Milton's account makes the same provision : in Book VII of Paradise Lost , the work of each day is celebrated with a complete angelic worship service . Remembering ...
... poetic shape : as the Bible ritualizes the creation in the sabbath , so Milton's account makes the same provision : in Book VII of Paradise Lost , the work of each day is celebrated with a complete angelic worship service . Remembering ...
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... poem persistently engaged in inquiring into origins : " who saw / When this creation was ? remember'st thou / Thy making , while the Maker gave thee being ? " ( V. 856-58 ) . If it is countered , it is by Raphael's injunction to Adam ...
... poem persistently engaged in inquiring into origins : " who saw / When this creation was ? remember'st thou / Thy making , while the Maker gave thee being ? " ( V. 856-58 ) . If it is countered , it is by Raphael's injunction to Adam ...
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Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost Regina M. Schwartz Limited preview - 1988 |
Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost Regina M. Schwartz No preview available - 2011 |
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Page 2 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...