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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... Poet - Narrator 62 4 The Gendered Hierarchy of Discourse 87 5 " Learning to Curse " : Colonialism and Censorship in Paradise 111 6 The Voices of Nebuchadnezzar in Paradise Regained 136 Conclusion Notes 163 160 Works Cited 191 Index 209 ...
... Poet - Narrator 62 4 The Gendered Hierarchy of Discourse 87 5 " Learning to Curse " : Colonialism and Censorship in Paradise 111 6 The Voices of Nebuchadnezzar in Paradise Regained 136 Conclusion Notes 163 160 Works Cited 191 Index 209 ...
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... poetic greatness alongside political cul- pability , and even cast the poet - revolutionary as a contemporary Nimrod responsible for the confusion of tongues . Critics de- nounced Milton's " Babylonish Dialect " and remarked disapprov ...
... poetic greatness alongside political cul- pability , and even cast the poet - revolutionary as a contemporary Nimrod responsible for the confusion of tongues . Critics de- nounced Milton's " Babylonish Dialect " and remarked disapprov ...
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Elizabeth Sauer. Paradise Lost and to the interaction of poetic voices and extra - poetic discourses in the text . By ... poet - narra- tor a privileged status and identified this voice with Milton's . By isolating the poem from a socio ...
Elizabeth Sauer. Paradise Lost and to the interaction of poetic voices and extra - poetic discourses in the text . By ... poet - narra- tor a privileged status and identified this voice with Milton's . By isolating the poem from a socio ...
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... poet - narrator's own dialogized voice and of the different speak- ers in the poem but also of the language of dissonance and multi- vocality that informs the text . Critics expressing discontent with early New Historicist as- sumptions ...
... poet - narrator's own dialogized voice and of the different speak- ers in the poem but also of the language of dissonance and multi- vocality that informs the text . Critics expressing discontent with early New Historicist as- sumptions ...
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... poet offered a portrait of a multivocal com- munity as a creative ferment for the re - formation of the nation.16 In ... poetic reading of the story of Babel in which he in- cludes the unnamed Nimrod , the postlapsarian world's first ...
... poet offered a portrait of a multivocal com- munity as a creative ferment for the re - formation of the nation.16 In ... poetic reading of the story of Babel in which he in- cludes the unnamed Nimrod , the postlapsarian world's first ...
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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