Destabilizing Milton: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude - Couverture rigide

Herman, P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 140396761X ISBN 13 : 9781403967619

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Synopsis

Destabilizing Milton challenges the widely accepted view of Milton as a poet of absolute, unquestioning certainty. In Paradise Lost, Milton confronts the failure of the Revolution by creating a poem that refuses to grant the reader any interpretive stability or certainty. Doubts can no longer be contained and concepts once marked by a 'fundamental immobility' now seem unstable at best. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes equally reflect Milton's deep ambivalences after the collapse of the Republic. Far from confirming his earlier ideals, in his later poetry, Milton subjects his culture's most cherished beliefs, such as the goodness of God, to withering scrutiny, while refusing the comfort of orthodox answers.

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À propos de l'auteur

PETER HERMAN is Professor of English at San Diego State University, USA. He is the author of Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment as well as the editor of Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts; Reading Monarchs Writing: The Poetry of Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, and James VII; Day Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy; and Historicizing Theory. In addition, he has published essays in such journals as Renaissance Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, Exemplaria, Criticism, and the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 140396761X
• ISBN 13: 9781403967619
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 239
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