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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... various drafts of this book , and have as well urged numerous other scholars to analyse and reinvent the conversations with the voices of early modern English literature and culture . I benefited from many fine critical studies on ...
... various drafts of this book , and have as well urged numerous other scholars to analyse and reinvent the conversations with the voices of early modern English literature and culture . I benefited from many fine critical studies on ...
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... various definitions for me that multiplied as my investigation proceeded . I have , therefore , artificially though nec- essarily separated the definitions into three interrelated contexts : socio - political , linguistic , and ...
... various definitions for me that multiplied as my investigation proceeded . I have , therefore , artificially though nec- essarily separated the definitions into three interrelated contexts : socio - political , linguistic , and ...
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... various codes and voices that he identifies . Alongside each utterance , one might say that " off - stage voices " can be heard . In their interweaving the voices ( whose ori- gin is " lost " in the vast perspective of the already ...
... various codes and voices that he identifies . Alongside each utterance , one might say that " off - stage voices " can be heard . In their interweaving the voices ( whose ori- gin is " lost " in the vast perspective of the already ...
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... various voices and dis- courses inscribed in the poem . In chapter 3 I first examine the nar- ration of tragic events that constitutes Raphael's " Sad task , " and then focus on the monological speeches and verbal contests be- tween two ...
... various voices and dis- courses inscribed in the poem . In chapter 3 I first examine the nar- ration of tragic events that constitutes Raphael's " Sad task , " and then focus on the monological speeches and verbal contests be- tween two ...
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... various other accounts of the fall of Babel written by Milton's predecessors and contempo- raries . In part 2 I characterize some of the alternative models of au- thority and prospective state and church governments that Milton offers ...
... various other accounts of the fall of Babel written by Milton's predecessors and contempo- raries . In part 2 I characterize some of the alternative models of au- thority and prospective state and church governments that Milton offers ...
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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