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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... creation narratives , the poems are brought into a constructive tension with the Genesis story and its received biblical and literary traditions , as well as with accounts of England's own tragic history . In presenting their indi ...
... creation narratives , the poems are brought into a constructive tension with the Genesis story and its received biblical and literary traditions , as well as with accounts of England's own tragic history . In presenting their indi ...
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Elizabeth Sauer. difference in the text by creating a univocal , ubiquitous poet - narra- tor , have been challenged in the last ... creation , I demonstrate the relevance of these concerns . 2 The strategies of reading Paradise Lost into ...
Elizabeth Sauer. difference in the text by creating a univocal , ubiquitous poet - narra- tor , have been challenged in the last ... creation , I demonstrate the relevance of these concerns . 2 The strategies of reading Paradise Lost into ...
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... created by utterance or allusion , including intertextual allusion . Voices are marked by the fall into language - the symbolic order and into history ; and yet , at the same time , the diverse voices and episodes that make up all ...
... created by utterance or allusion , including intertextual allusion . Voices are marked by the fall into language - the symbolic order and into history ; and yet , at the same time , the diverse voices and episodes that make up all ...
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... creation of the fictional world that is situated within the larger narrative of history , thus establishing an ongoing con- versation between literary and extra - literary voices . In examining the images of voice in Paradise Lost , we ...
... creation of the fictional world that is situated within the larger narrative of history , thus establishing an ongoing con- versation between literary and extra - literary voices . In examining the images of voice in Paradise Lost , we ...
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... creation accounts and tragic narratives betray the heightened self - awareness of the speakers , which is manifested in soliloquy - the discourse of the divided self , of which the multivocal poem is intensely distrustful . The ...
... creation accounts and tragic narratives betray the heightened self - awareness of the speakers , which is manifested in soliloquy - the discourse of the divided self , of which the multivocal poem is intensely distrustful . The ...
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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