Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise LostCambridge University Press, 1988 - 144 pages As a reinterpretation of Milton, this study engages the ideas of Freud, Nietzsche, and Derrida. However, the author derives her thesis from Milton's own debt to ancient Biblical sources. The Bible, says Schwartz, offers Milton a pattern of repeated beginnings that informs his depiction of the universe and characterizes his poetic and interpretative processes. This original reading of the Bible enables a powerful rereading of Paradise Lost. |
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Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost Regina M. Schwartz. To I. L. Schwartz , Rosanne , and Bart CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Repeating Remembering 1 " And the sea.
Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost Regina M. Schwartz. To I. L. Schwartz , Rosanne , and Bart CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Repeating Remembering 1 " And the sea.
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Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost Regina M. Schwartz. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Repeating Remembering 1 " And the sea was no more " : Chaos vs. creation The unclean realm Cosmogonic conflict Chaos and the fall 2 " Secret ...
Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost Regina M. Schwartz. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction Repeating Remembering 1 " And the sea was no more " : Chaos vs. creation The unclean realm Cosmogonic conflict Chaos and the fall 2 " Secret ...
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... REPEATING Milton was preoccupied with origins . He wrote of the origin of the cosmos , the birth of his god , the birth of the first man and the first woman , the first utterance , the first interpretation , the first temp- tation , the ...
... REPEATING Milton was preoccupied with origins . He wrote of the origin of the cosmos , the birth of his god , the birth of the first man and the first woman , the first utterance , the first interpretation , the first temp- tation , the ...
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... repeated beginnings . In the opening invocation to Paradise Lost , where Milton is so concerned with first things , he has deferred the first words of the Bible . Instead of beginning " In the beginning ... , " he begins with the fall ...
... repeated beginnings . In the opening invocation to Paradise Lost , where Milton is so concerned with first things , he has deferred the first words of the Bible . Instead of beginning " In the beginning ... , " he begins with the fall ...
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... Repeating is linked to remembering in the Bible , where both assume the sacred context of ritual commemoration . Such commemoration does not begin after an event ; rather , ritual repetition becomes part of the event itself . In Exodus ...
... Repeating is linked to remembering in the Bible , where both assume the sacred context of ritual commemoration . Such commemoration does not begin after an event ; rather , ritual repetition becomes part of the event itself . In Exodus ...
Contents
And the sea was no more Chaos vs creation | 8 |
The unclean realm | 11 |
Cosmogonic conflict | 24 |
Chaos and the fall | 31 |
Secret gaze or open admiration The invitation to origins | 40 |
Curiosity and knowledge | 41 |
Things visible to mortal sight | 53 |
Remember and tell over Creation in sacred song | 60 |
Cosmic liturgy | 77 |
Paradise Lost as hymn | 83 |
Yet once more Recreation repetition and return | 91 |
The Satanic will | 94 |
Adamic return | 103 |
Notes | 111 |
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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...