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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... 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 , Dale ...
... 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 , Dale ...
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... political , linguistic , and narratological contexts . Both epics accommodate a variety of interpretive voices , episodes , and dramatic and discursive exchanges that resist the monological con- tainment of the poems ' dominant ...
... political , linguistic , and narratological contexts . Both epics accommodate a variety of interpretive voices , episodes , and dramatic and discursive exchanges that resist the monological con- tainment of the poems ' dominant ...
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... 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- ingly on the incongruity of ...
... 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- ingly on the incongruity of ...
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... political context and foregrounding the authority of the dominant narrative voice , critics developed a reading of the epic as a unified whole.4 The voice of the bard , the presence of the poet , Louis Lohr Martz announces in The ...
... political context and foregrounding the authority of the dominant narrative voice , critics developed a reading of the epic as a unified whole.4 The voice of the bard , the presence of the poet , Louis Lohr Martz announces in The ...
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... political , linguistic , and narratological . Voice is an expression 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 ...
... political , linguistic , and narratological . Voice is an expression 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 ...
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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