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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 44
Page ix
... literary and political discourses of his time , particularly those of Stevie Davies , Balachandra Rajan , Annabel Patterson , Marshall Grossman , Mary Nyquist , and Christopher Hill . My written and verbal exchanges with Brian Patton ...
... literary and political discourses of his time , particularly those of Stevie Davies , Balachandra Rajan , Annabel Patterson , Marshall Grossman , Mary Nyquist , and Christopher Hill . My written and verbal exchanges with Brian Patton ...
Page 3
... literary traditions , as well as with accounts of England's own tragic history . In presenting their indi- vidual ... literary voices the epics inscribe . In " Defamiliarizing Paradise Lost " Balachandra Rajan contends that the literary ...
... literary traditions , as well as with accounts of England's own tragic history . In presenting their indi- vidual ... literary voices the epics inscribe . In " Defamiliarizing Paradise Lost " Balachandra Rajan contends that the literary ...
Page 4
... literary discourses inform the representation of the poems ' diverse narratives . In my analysis of Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and the history of the epics ' ago- nistic creation , I demonstrate the relevance of these concerns ...
... literary discourses inform the representation of the poems ' diverse narratives . In my analysis of Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , and the history of the epics ' ago- nistic creation , I demonstrate the relevance of these concerns ...
Page 6
... Literary Form explores the interaction of the poem's nar- rative voices in reference to its multiple genres , while Kathleen Swaim , in Before and After the Fall , examines the narrative strategies and pedagogical procedures of Raphael ...
... Literary Form explores the interaction of the poem's nar- rative voices in reference to its multiple genres , while Kathleen Swaim , in Before and After the Fall , examines the narrative strategies and pedagogical procedures of Raphael ...
Page 7
... literary , linguistic , historical , and social - which they help to define and by which they are encoded . Defined in a Bakhtinian context as the power to influ- ence and shape thought and opinion through language , authority is ...
... literary , linguistic , historical , and social - which they help to define and by which they are encoded . Defined in a Bakhtinian context as the power to influ- ence and shape thought and opinion through language , authority is ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics Elizabeth Sauer No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
Adam and Eve Adam's argues authority biblical book 12 book 9 censorship challenged chap chapter characterized characters Christopher Hill classical commonwealth confusion confusion of tongues construction contemporary context conversation created creation account creation story critical cultural debate describes devils dialogue discourse dissonance divine dominant earth Eikonoklastes epic Eve's fall feminized gender Genesis story heaven hierarchical human identified identity interpretation John Milton king kingship language linguistic literary Michael Milton monarchy multiple multivocal narcissism narrative narrator nature Nebuchadnezzar Nimrod offers pamphlet Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paradoxical poem poem's poet poet-narrator poet-narrator's poetic political postlapsarian prophecy prophetic Prose Raphael reader reading reemplotment relationship Renaissance resists response Restoration reveals rhetoric role royalist Rump Satan scene seventeenth seventeenth-century Sin's social soliloquy Son's speakers speech T.S. Eliot temptation thee thereby thir thou tion tive tongues tower of Babel tragic truth tyranny verbal verse words