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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... fact commend the poet for his innovative art of narration , for the texture of the fable , the variation of incidents , the interposition of dialogue , and the stratagems that surprise and enchain attention in Paradise Lost . However ...
... fact commend the poet for his innovative art of narration , for the texture of the fable , the variation of incidents , the interposition of dialogue , and the stratagems that surprise and enchain attention in Paradise Lost . However ...
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... fact they serve merely as a chorus in the poem . The dialogic nature of the authorial voice is examined by con- temporary critics , including William Kerrigan , who develops a powerful Freudian reading of the poem in The Sacred Complex ...
... fact they serve merely as a chorus in the poem . The dialogic nature of the authorial voice is examined by con- temporary critics , including William Kerrigan , who develops a powerful Freudian reading of the poem in The Sacred Complex ...
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... fact is sustained by primal ambivalence , kairos , or " image of voice " ( Bloom , Agon 38 ) , produced by the struggle between the epic poets . The word - play and wandering signification denied by the classical orator threaten the ...
... fact is sustained by primal ambivalence , kairos , or " image of voice " ( Bloom , Agon 38 ) , produced by the struggle between the epic poets . The word - play and wandering signification denied by the classical orator threaten the ...
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... fact , Milton portrays his primary fe- male character at best as a secondary antihero in the epic . More- over , the poet appropriates both her voice and creation story , represented by Adam's possession and rupturing of the lyrical ...
... fact , Milton portrays his primary fe- male character at best as a secondary antihero in the epic . More- over , the poet appropriates both her voice and creation story , represented by Adam's possession and rupturing of the lyrical ...
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Contents
3 | |
14 | |
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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