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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... story and its received biblical and literary traditions , as well as with accounts of England's own tragic history . In presenting their indi- vidual creation stories , the narrators of both texts renegotiate the terms of their self ...
... story and its received biblical and literary traditions , as well as with accounts of England's own tragic history . In presenting their indi- vidual creation stories , the narrators of both texts renegotiate the terms of their self ...
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... story " ( 11 ) . Burton Weber con- cludes that Donald F. Bouchard has written the definitive criticism on the subject by treating the question of point of view in Paradise Lost " so astonishingly that the theme need never be touched on ...
... story " ( 11 ) . Burton Weber con- cludes that Donald F. Bouchard has written the definitive criticism on the subject by treating the question of point of view in Paradise Lost " so astonishingly that the theme need never be touched on ...
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... story of Babel in which he in- cludes the unnamed Nimrod , the postlapsarian world's first monarch , who declares his dissatisfaction with " fair equality , fra- ternal state " ( 12.26 ) . In the second half of the chapter I ...
... story of Babel in which he in- cludes the unnamed Nimrod , the postlapsarian world's first monarch , who declares his dissatisfaction with " fair equality , fra- ternal state " ( 12.26 ) . In the second half of the chapter I ...
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... story of Babel offers a critical reading not only of the his- tory of polity but also of the evolution of language . In chapter 2 I examine linguistic developments as well as constructions of histor- ical narratives in a seventeenth ...
... story of Babel offers a critical reading not only of the his- tory of polity but also of the evolution of language . In chapter 2 I examine linguistic developments as well as constructions of histor- ical narratives in a seventeenth ...
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... stories . Moreover , the different creation accounts and tragic narratives betray the heightened self - awareness of the speakers , which is manifested in soliloquy - the discourse of the divided self , of which the multivocal poem is ...
... stories . Moreover , the different creation accounts and tragic narratives betray the heightened self - awareness of the speakers , which is manifested in soliloquy - the discourse of the divided self , of which the multivocal poem is ...
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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