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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... relation to the other narrators , as well as to the other " voices " of seventeenth - century history and culture.1 Though products of the late seventeenth century , Milton's multi- vocal texts speak to the contemporary reader , who ...
... relation to the other narrators , as well as to the other " voices " of seventeenth - century history and culture.1 Though products of the late seventeenth century , Milton's multi- vocal texts speak to the contemporary reader , who ...
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... relationship between the speaker and both the characters and readers ( Ferry 180 ) ; cut off by his blindness " from the chearful waies of men , " the omniscient voice controls the allegedly self ... relation- ship between 5 Introduction.
... relationship between the speaker and both the characters and readers ( Ferry 180 ) ; cut off by his blindness " from the chearful waies of men , " the omniscient voice controls the allegedly self ... relation- ship between 5 Introduction.
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Elizabeth Sauer. offers a poststructuralist interpretation of the intertextual relation- ship between the Miltonic ... relations and the multivocal texts . The range of contemporary critical treatments of voice has ex- panded considerably ...
Elizabeth Sauer. offers a poststructuralist interpretation of the intertextual relation- ship between the Miltonic ... relations and the multivocal texts . The range of contemporary critical treatments of voice has ex- panded considerably ...
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... relationship in chapter 3 , Milton links tyranny with cacophony and connects the solitary , " negative voice " of monarchy ( Prose , Eikonoklastes 3 : 501 , 3 : 579 ) with " the bar- barous dissonance " ( 7.32 ) both of the royalist ...
... relationship in chapter 3 , Milton links tyranny with cacophony and connects the solitary , " negative voice " of monarchy ( Prose , Eikonoklastes 3 : 501 , 3 : 579 ) with " the bar- barous dissonance " ( 7.32 ) both of the royalist ...
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... relationship to the nation's history ; using a paradoxical discourse to knit together the historical episodes with ... relation to seventeenth - century debates about government and gender politics.19 In satirizing political corruption ...
... relationship to the nation's history ; using a paradoxical discourse to knit together the historical episodes with ... relation to seventeenth - century debates about government and gender politics.19 In satirizing political corruption ...
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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