Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's EpicsSauer investigates the texts' discursive practices and the politics of their orchestration of voice exploring the ways in which Milton's multivocal poems interrogated dominant structures of authority in the seventeenth century and constructed in their place a community of voices characterized by dissonances. She incorporates different critical responses to Milton's texts into her argument as a way of contextualizing her own historically engaged approach. By injecting concepts such as multiple narrators and genres, open forms, strategic deferrals, and the exchanges between the poetic voices and discourses of the early modern period, Sauer tells us something about how the poems spoke to their own time as well as how they may be recuperated to speak to ours. |
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... ( Prose 1 : 890 ) . In challenging censorship laws , Milton in the Areopagitica defends books as living things and com- pares , in turn , the human experience of the world to the reading of a text : " What ever thing we hear or see ...
... ( Prose 1 : 890 ) . In challenging censorship laws , Milton in the Areopagitica defends books as living things and com- pares , in turn , the human experience of the world to the reading of a text : " What ever thing we hear or see ...
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... ( Prose , Eikonoklastes 3 : 501 , 3 : 579 ) with " the bar- barous dissonance " ( 7.32 ) both of the royalist pamphleteers and the " miscellaneous rabble " ( Poems , PR 3.50 ) . In each chapter I also iden- tify strategies adopted by the ...
... ( Prose , Eikonoklastes 3 : 501 , 3 : 579 ) with " the bar- barous dissonance " ( 7.32 ) both of the royalist pamphleteers and the " miscellaneous rabble " ( Poems , PR 3.50 ) . In each chapter I also iden- tify strategies adopted by the ...
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... ( Prose 1 : 827 ) . Mil- ton constantly redefines his relationship to the nation's history ; using a paradoxical discourse to knit together the historical episodes with an emerging vision of Providence , the poet - revolu- tionary ...
... ( Prose 1 : 827 ) . Mil- ton constantly redefines his relationship to the nation's history ; using a paradoxical discourse to knit together the historical episodes with an emerging vision of Providence , the poet - revolu- tionary ...
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... ( Prose 3 : 405 ) . Even when examining the voices and focalizers of the poems or when quoting directly , the literary critic inevitably engages in fo- calization herself by lending a ( number of ) perspective ( s ) to the analysed texts ...
... ( Prose 3 : 405 ) . Even when examining the voices and focalizers of the poems or when quoting directly , the literary critic inevitably engages in fo- calization herself by lending a ( number of ) perspective ( s ) to the analysed texts ...
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Contents
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2 Critical Interventions | 35 |
The Sad Task of Raphael Satan and the PoetNarrator | 62 |
4 The Gendered Hierarchy of Discourse | 87 |
Colonialism and Censorship in Paradise | 111 |
6 The Voices of Nebuchadnezzar in Paradise Regained | 136 |
Conclusion | 160 |
Notes | 163 |
Works Cited | 191 |
Index | 209 |
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