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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... readers from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and McGill - Queen's University Press for their in- sightful , incisive evaluations of my manuscript . Special thanks go to Roger Martin at McGill - Queen's for his astuteness ...
... readers from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and McGill - Queen's University Press for their in- sightful , incisive evaluations of my manuscript . Special thanks go to Roger Martin at McGill - Queen's for his astuteness ...
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... reader , who becomes engaged in comparing and evaluating the poetic and extra - literary voices the epics inscribe . In " Defamiliarizing Paradise Lost " Balachandra Rajan contends that the literary strategy of including multiple ...
... reader , who becomes engaged in comparing and evaluating the poetic and extra - literary voices the epics inscribe . In " Defamiliarizing Paradise Lost " Balachandra Rajan contends that the literary strategy of including multiple ...
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... reader to identify the narrator as " an au- thority who is a natural ally against the difficulties of the poem ... readers ( Ferry 180 ) ; cut off by his blindness " from the chearful waies of men , " the omniscient voice controls the ...
... reader to identify the narrator as " an au- thority who is a natural ally against the difficulties of the poem ... readers ( Ferry 180 ) ; cut off by his blindness " from the chearful waies of men , " the omniscient voice controls the ...
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... reader of the text , who is without history , merely holds together all the text's traces ( Image - Music - Text 142-8 ) . The deprivileging of utterance by writing is reinforced by the Derridian proposition that writing is actually the ...
... reader of the text , who is without history , merely holds together all the text's traces ( Image - Music - Text 142-8 ) . The deprivileging of utterance by writing is reinforced by the Derridian proposition that writing is actually the ...
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... readers . ' The judges are not contemporaries , but subsequent history " ( 161 ) . The proposed separation of the ... reader at the same time participates in an exchange with the text and thereby with current and past discourses that ...
... readers . ' The judges are not contemporaries , but subsequent history " ( 161 ) . The proposed separation of the ... reader at the same time participates in an exchange with the text and thereby with current and past discourses that ...
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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