Living Texts: Interpreting MiltonKristin A. Pruitt, Charles Durham, Charles W. Durham 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. |
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... God , Father and Son ; still others investigate the portrayal of Chaos in Paradise Lost , and a number consider the ... God's provi- dential design . As such , " Adam's story not only brings to the fore some of the most important themes ...
... God , Father and Son ; still others investigate the portrayal of Chaos in Paradise Lost , and a number consider the ... God's provi- dential design . As such , " Adam's story not only brings to the fore some of the most important themes ...
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... God's enemy , that indeed , Chaos is , after its fashion , good . " Because it " lacks God's creative and moral goodness , " he continues , " the realm of Chaos is good only in the sense that it is materially sufficient for God's ...
... God's enemy , that indeed , Chaos is , after its fashion , good . " Because it " lacks God's creative and moral goodness , " he continues , " the realm of Chaos is good only in the sense that it is materially sufficient for God's ...
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... God's creative acts , the second version is distin- guished by an essentially human perspective immersed in the drama of relationship and conflict . The differences that arise among various versions of a biblical narrative are the very ...
... God's creative acts , the second version is distin- guished by an essentially human perspective immersed in the drama of relationship and conflict . The differences that arise among various versions of a biblical narrative are the very ...
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... God's providence . Lewalski makes the telling point that within the compass of the larger epic narrative , it is actually Eve , rather than Adam , who " invents " the genre of autobiography . Complementing Eve's story , Adam's story ...
... God's providence . Lewalski makes the telling point that within the compass of the larger epic narrative , it is actually Eve , rather than Adam , who " invents " the genre of autobiography . Complementing Eve's story , Adam's story ...
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... God . As a source of such insight , Adam's story is framed by a pro- logue ( 8.204-49 ) and an epilogue ( 8.521-22 ) ... God's ways , for Adam's story is a cele- bration of God in all his creative and providential power . The first part ...
... God . As a source of such insight , Adam's story is framed by a pro- logue ( 8.204-49 ) and an epilogue ( 8.521-22 ) ... God's ways , for Adam's story is a cele- bration of God in all his creative and providential power . The first part ...
Contents
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John Milton Object of the Erotic Gaze? | 57 |
Cesarean Section and the Birth of Eve | 80 |
John Miltons Social Contract | 99 |
The Evil Eye in Paradise Lost Book 4 | 118 |
Miltons Use of the Helen Episode Aeneid 256788 | 131 |
Theosis and Paideia in the Writings of Gregory of Nyssa and the Prelapsarian Books of Miltons Paradise Lost | 144 |
Milton Lucretius and the Void Profound of Unessential Night | 198 |
Of Chaos and Nightingales | 218 |
The Confounded Confusion of Chaos | 228 |
The Amyraldian Connection | 237 |
Miltons Heterodoxy of the Incarnation and Subjectivity in De Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost | 264 |
Miltons Of True Religion and Antipapist Sentiment | 283 |
List of Contributors | 303 |
Index | 307 |
Riding the Hebrew Word Web | 162 |
The Central Naturalistic Narrative and the Allegorical Dimension to Paradise Lost | 178 |
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Page 32 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 47 - For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
Page 149 - Time may come, when Men With Angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare ; And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit...
Page 274 - He left it in thy power; ordained thy will, By nature free, not over-ruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity; Our voluntary service he requires, Not our necessitated; such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what they must By destiny, and can no other choose?
Page 102 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 230 - Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude, nor vacuous the space. Though I uncircumscribed myself retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.
Page 151 - I can repair That detriment, if such it be to lose Self-lost, and in a moment will create Another world, out of one man a race Of men innumerable...
Page 49 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 148 - O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom 'All things proceed, and up to him return, < If not depraved from good ; created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...