Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms
Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms

Author: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1400853958

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This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Between Worlds
Between Worlds

Author: Will Pallister

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0802098355

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William Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical registers observed in each of the poem's major settings.

John Milton's Paradise Lost
John Milton's Paradise Lost

Author: Margaret Kean

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780415303255

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Designed for students new to Milton's work, this sourcebook outlines the seventeenth-century contexts of its composition and examines a range of the key critical responses from across literary history. The guide also usefully reprints frequently studied passages of the poem, suggests further reading, and provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical material.

Why Vergil?
Why Vergil?

Author: Stephanie Quinn

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 0865164185

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An anthology of 43 classic essays and poems on the Roman poet. Quinn's position is that his work continues to be compelling and flexible enough to support a wide range of interpretations and perspectives. In addition to a bibliography, she provides a lengthy introduction and conclusion that tackle the question of the book's title, Why Vergil? Further, she juxtaposes the first few lines of the Aeneid in its original Latin with five translations, and includes a synopsis of it and a list of dates for quick reference. She has not indexed the volume.

A Preface to Paradise Lost
A Preface to Paradise Lost

Author: C.S. Lewis

Publisher: London : Oxford University Press

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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Author C. S. Lewis examines John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the epic genre, discussing epic technique, subject matter, and style and the elements of Milton's story.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion

Author: Mark Knight

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1135051100

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This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of literature and religion from a contemporary critical perspective. Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this Companion looks at: Key moments in the story of religion and literary studies from Matthew Arnold through to the impact of 9/11 A variety of theoretical approaches to the study of religion and literature Different ways that religion and literature are connected from overtly religious writing, to subtle religious readings Analysis of key sacred texts and the way they have been studied, re-written, and questioned by literature Political implications of work on religion and literature Thoroughly introduced and contextualised, this volume is an engaging introduction to this huge and complex field.

Reading Poetry, Writing Genre
Reading Poetry, Writing Genre

Author: Silvio Bär

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-12-27

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1350039349

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This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. “Genre” has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, which begins with Aristotle. In a similar vein, recent developments in genre studies have suggested that literary genres are not given or fixed entities, but subjective and unstable (as well as historically situated), and that the reception of genre by both writers and scholars feeds back into the way genre is articulated in specific literary works. Classical scholarship, literary criticism, and genre form a triangle of key concepts for the volume, approached in different ways and with different productive results by contributors from across the disciplines of Classics and English literature. Covering topics from the establishment of genre in the Middle Ages to the invention of female epic and the epyllion, and bringing together the works of English poets from Milton to Tennyson to Josephine Balmer, the essays collected hereargue that the reception and criticism of classical texts play a crucial part in generic formation in English poetry.

The Imperfect Friend
The Imperfect Friend

Author: Wendy Olmsted

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0802091369

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Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience. In The Imperfect Friend, Wendy Olmsted examines a broad range of Renaissance and Reformation sources, all of which aim to cultivate 'emotional intelligence' through rhetorical means, with a view to understanding how emotion functions in these texts. In the works of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), John Milton (1608-1674), and many others, characters are depicted conversing with one another about their emotions. While counselors appeal to objective reasons for feeling a certain way, their efforts to shape emotion often encounter resistance. This volume demonstrates how, in Renaissance and Reformation literature, failures of persuasion arise from conflicts among competing rhetorical frameworks among characters. Multiple frameworks, Olmsted argues, produce tensions and, consequently, an interiorized conflicted self. By situating emotional discourse within distinct historical and socio-cultural perspectives, The Imperfect Friend sheds new light on how the writings of Sidney, Milton, and others grappled with problems of personal identity. From their innovations, the study concludes, friendship emerges as a favourite site of counseling the afflicted and perturbed.

Living Texts
Living Texts

Author: Kristin A. Pruitt

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781575910420

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The essays in this collection are a testimony to Milton's claim that books doe contain a potencie of life in them to be as active as that soule was whose progeny they are. They are proof that Milton's progeny, whether poetry or prose, continue to inspire readers to investigate and interpret, and that even the poet himself is at times the subject of scrutiny. Although these essays examine issues as widely diverse as the reliability of Adam's narration to Raphael and the portrayal of chaos in Paradise Lost to the poet's role as an object of erotic attention in the nineteenth century, all suggest that Milton's are still living texts.