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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... their own epics.3 Each interpretation transforms the received literary tradition , which in turn informs our response to Paradise Lost and to the interaction of poetic voices and 4 Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice.
... their own epics.3 Each interpretation transforms the received literary tradition , which in turn informs our response to Paradise Lost and to the interaction of poetic voices and 4 Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice.
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... turn , the human experience of the world to the reading of a text : " What ever thing we hear or see , sitting , walking , travelling , or conversing may be fitly call'd our book , and is of the same effect . that writings are " ( Prose ...
... turn , the human experience of the world to the reading of a text : " What ever thing we hear or see , sitting , walking , travelling , or conversing may be fitly call'd our book , and is of the same effect . that writings are " ( Prose ...
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... turn of how we orchestrate as well as censor the many voices and episodes that make up our own culture and history . The accommodation of multiple voices in Milton's epics teaches us about dialogism while exhibiting the di- alectical ...
... turn of how we orchestrate as well as censor the many voices and episodes that make up our own culture and history . The accommodation of multiple voices in Milton's epics teaches us about dialogism while exhibiting the di- alectical ...
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... turn of events , the remaining republicans sought alternatives to direct political involvement . A victim of the royalists ' return , Milton chose to compose an epic for the nation in which he recounted England's tragic history and also ...
... turn of events , the remaining republicans sought alternatives to direct political involvement . A victim of the royalists ' return , Milton chose to compose an epic for the nation in which he recounted England's tragic history and also ...
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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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