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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... redemption ; John Milton , the political figure whose career helped to shape the course of history even as his life was shaped — and threatened — by it ; John Milton , the theologian who came at the twilight of the dominant discourse on ...
... redemption ; John Milton , the political figure whose career helped to shape the course of history even as his life was shaped — and threatened — by it ; John Milton , the theologian who came at the twilight of the dominant discourse on ...
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... redemption . If in the course of this book I hedge about Milton's relation to postmodernism — now he is an oddly anachronistic precursor , now he is not — it is because I do not want to facilely categorize him that way , however ...
... redemption . If in the course of this book I hedge about Milton's relation to postmodernism — now he is an oddly anachronistic precursor , now he is not — it is because I do not want to facilely categorize him that way , however ...
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... redemption ) is sought with varying success , compulsively re- peated but also genuinely re - creating . Notes 1. Gianni Vattimo , The End of Modernity , trans . Jon R. Snyder ( Bal- timore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991 ) , p ...
... redemption ) is sought with varying success , compulsively re- peated but also genuinely re - creating . Notes 1. Gianni Vattimo , The End of Modernity , trans . Jon R. Snyder ( Bal- timore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991 ) , p ...
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... redemption and her corollary polemic against the creation - fertility myths of neighboring cults , it is remarkable that the Biblical canon includes a creation narrative at all . The oldest credo of ancient Israel , Deuteronomy 26 : 5-9 ...
... redemption and her corollary polemic against the creation - fertility myths of neighboring cults , it is remarkable that the Biblical canon includes a creation narrative at all . The oldest credo of ancient Israel , Deuteronomy 26 : 5-9 ...
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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...