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Author : Jameela Ann Lares
Release : 1994
Genre : Christianity and literature
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Book Synopsis Milton and the Rhetoric of Religious Controversy by : Jameela Ann Lares
Download or read book Milton and the Rhetoric of Religious Controversy written by Jameela Ann Lares. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John N. King
Release : 2000-06-22
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 986/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Milton and Religious Controversy by : John N. King
Download or read book Milton and Religious Controversy written by John N. King. This book was released on 2000-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious satire and polemic constitute an elusive presence in Paradise Lost. John N. King shows how Milton's poem takes on new meaning when understood as part of a strategy of protest against ecclesiastical formalism and clericalism. The experience of Adam and Eve before the Fall recalls many Puritan devotional habits. After the Fall, they are prone to 'idolatrous' ritual and ceremony that anticipate the religious 'error' of Milton's own age. Vituperative sermons, broadsides and pamphlets, notably Milton's own tracts, afford a valuable context for recovering the poem's engagement with the violent history of the Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Restoration, while contemporary visual satires help to clarify Miltonic practice. Eighteenth-century critics who attacked breaches of decorum and sublimity in Paradise Lost alternately deplored and ignored a literary and polemical tradition deployed by Milton's contemporaries. This important study, first published in 2000, sheds light on Milton's epic and its literary and religious contexts.
Author : Thomas Kranidas
Release : 2005
Genre : Christian literature, English
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Book Synopsis Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal by : Thomas Kranidas
Download or read book Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal written by Thomas Kranidas. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes a rhetoric of radical excess that developed among the Puritan wing of English Protestantism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and from which Milton's radically agressive style of prose emerged"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Sharon Achinstein
Release : 2007-08-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Milton & Toleration by : Sharon Achinstein
Download or read book Milton & Toleration written by Sharon Achinstein. This book was released on 2007-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating John Milton's works in national and international contexts, and applying a variety of approaches from literary to historical, philosophical, and postcolonial, Milton and Toleration offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the imagination. Milton is often enlisted in stories about the rise of toleration: his advocacy of open debate in defending press freedoms, his condemnation of persecution, and his criticism of ecclesiastical and political hierarchies have long been read as milestones on the road to toleration. However, there is also an intolerant Milton, whose defence of religious liberty reached only as far as Protestants. This book of sixteen essays by leading scholars analyses tolerance in Milton's poetry and prose, examining the literary means by which tolerance was questioned, observed, and became an object of meditation. Organized in three parts, 'Revising Whig Accounts,' 'Philosophical Engagements,' 'Poetry and Rhetoric,' the contributors, including leading Milton scholars from the USA, Canada, and the UK, address central toleration issues including heresy, violence, imperialism, republicanism, Catholicism, Islam, church community, liberalism, libertinism, natural law, legal theory, and equity. A pan-European perspective is presented through analysis of Milton's engagement with key figures and radical groups. All of Milton's major works are given an airing, including prose and poetry, and the book suggests that Milton's writings are a significant medium through which to explore the making of modern ideas of tolerance.
Author : William Pallister
Release : 2013-05-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Between Worlds by : William Pallister
Download or read book Between Worlds written by William Pallister. This book was released on 2013-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton's Paradise Lost has long been celebrated for its epic subject matter and the poet's rhetorical fireworks. In Between Worlds, 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: Heaven, Hell, and Paradise. Providing insights into Milton's relationship with the history of rhetoric as well as rhetorical conventions and traditions, this rigorous study shows how rhetorical forms are used to highlight and enhance some of the poem's most important themes including free will, contingency and probability. Pallister also provides an authoritative discussion of how the omniscience of God in Paradise Lost affects Milton's verse, and considers how God's speech applies to the concept of the perfect rhetorician. An erudite and detailed study of both Paradise Lost and the history of rhetoric, Between Worlds is essential reading that will help to unravel many of the complexities of Milton's enduring masterpiece.
