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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Page vii
... tell over " : Creation in sacred song Ritual recompense Cosmic liturgy page ix page xi 13 3 8 11 24 31 40 41 53 435 8878 60 66 77 83 Paradise Lost as hymn 4 " Yet once more " : Re - creation , repetition , and return The two falls The ...
... tell over " : Creation in sacred song Ritual recompense Cosmic liturgy page ix page xi 13 3 8 11 24 31 40 41 53 435 8878 60 66 77 83 Paradise Lost as hymn 4 " Yet once more " : Re - creation , repetition , and return The two falls The ...
Page xii
... tell . Instead , my focus is on biblical creation , for it is that myth that becomes Milton's paradigm for the struggle between life and death , good and evil , and so many other forms of creation and chaos . Milton polarizes responses ...
... tell . Instead , my focus is on biblical creation , for it is that myth that becomes Milton's paradigm for the struggle between life and death , good and evil , and so many other forms of creation and chaos . Milton polarizes responses ...
Page xiii
... tells us that good and evil come into the world " from out the rind of one apple . " In an uncanny echo , Freud writes in an essay he called " The Two Classes of Instincts " : For the opposition between the two classes of instincts we ...
... tells us that good and evil come into the world " from out the rind of one apple . " In an uncanny echo , Freud writes in an essay he called " The Two Classes of Instincts " : For the opposition between the two classes of instincts we ...
Page xiv
... tells of injury not only to the self but to all of creation , an injury whose repair ( known in theological parlance as redemption ) is sought with varying success , compulsively re- peated but also genuinely re - creating . Notes 1 ...
... tells of injury not only to the self but to all of creation , an injury whose repair ( known in theological parlance as redemption ) is sought with varying success , compulsively re- peated but also genuinely re - creating . Notes 1 ...
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... tell over " his kindnesses . His epic would fulfill that promise to his Heavenly Father . I begin , in the first chapter , with the cosmogonic repetition , offering it as a paradigm of a chaos that continually threatens and a creation ...
... tell over " his kindnesses . His epic would fulfill that promise to his Heavenly Father . I begin , in the first chapter , with the cosmogonic repetition , offering it as a paradigm of a chaos that continually threatens and a creation ...
Other editions - View all
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...