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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... attempting to assess litera- ture's impact on society , I investigate the text's own discursive practices and the politics of its orchestration of voice . I also identify ways in which Milton's multivocal poems interrogate dominant ...
... attempting to assess litera- ture's impact on society , I investigate the text's own discursive practices and the politics of its orchestration of voice . I also identify ways in which Milton's multivocal poems interrogate dominant ...
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... attempt to challenge the master narratives of state and church history . Adding his voice to the anti - monarchi- cal and anti - prelatic movements , Milton denounces all those who uphold " the right of the past to control the 10 ...
... attempt to challenge the master narratives of state and church history . Adding his voice to the anti - monarchi- cal and anti - prelatic movements , Milton denounces all those who uphold " the right of the past to control the 10 ...
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... attempting to make a name for themselves by building the tower , Nimrod and his crew remain , ironically , nameless and powerless . Babble resounds through time , and the unfinished tower becomes a symbol for the tyrant's political ...
... attempting to make a name for themselves by building the tower , Nimrod and his crew remain , ironically , nameless and powerless . Babble resounds through time , and the unfinished tower becomes a symbol for the tyrant's political ...
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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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Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics Elizabeth Sauer No preview available - 1996 |
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