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| Genre/Form: | Ressources Internet |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Version imprimée: Quint, David. Inside paradise lost : reading the designs of Milton's epic. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] x, 329 pages (DLC)17715455 |
| Named Person: | John Milton |
| Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Quint |
| ISBN: | 9781400850488 1400850487 |
| OCLC Number: | 974276855 |
| Awards: | Winner of James Holly Hanford Award (Milton Society of America) 2015 Short-listed for Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award 2015 Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2014 |
| Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (342 pages) |
| Contents: | 1. Milton's Book of Numbers: Book 1 and Its Catalog -- The Shape of the Catalog -- Moloch and Belial 1 -- Moloch and Saturn 1 -- Moloch and Saturn 2: A Miniature Aeneid -- Moloch and Belial 2: Libya and Sodom -- Egypt -- The Catalog and Pandaemonium -- The Logic of the Similes in Book 1 -- Raising Devils -- Appendix: Demonic Swashbucklers -- 2. Ulysses and the Devils: The Unity of Book 2 -- The Council -- Moloch and Belial Again: Ajax and Ulysses -- Mammon and Beelzebub: A Thersites Is Rebuked -- Satan and the Doloneia -- Meanwhile, Back in Hell ... -- Milton's Telegony -- Satan's Odyssey -- Whose Odyssey? -- 3. Fear of Falling: Icarus, Phaethon, and Lucretius -- Icarus and Satan's Fall Through Chaos -- Virgil and Lucretius -- Dante, Tasso, Ovid -- Satan Voyager -- Phaethon, the Son, and the War in Heaven -- Flight and Fall -- A Poetry Against Falling -- 4. Light, Vision, and the Unity of Book 3 -- Structure and Design -- Universal Blank -- Vision The Sun -- The Paradise of Fools -- Sun Worshippers -- Poetry and Science -- 5. The Politics of Envy -- Envy and the New Dispensation -- Angels and Courtiers -- Brotherhood versus Kingship in Books 11 -- 12 -- 6. Getting What You Wish For: A Reading of the Fall -- The Seduction of Eve -- The Second Adam as Second Eve -- Adam's Choice: "One flesh" -- "Not vastly disproportionall" -- Changing Places -- Appendix: A Note on the Separation Scene -- 7. Reversing the Fall in Book 10 -- Virgilian Coordinates and the End of Satan -- Creation and Anti-creation -- Anti-triumphs -- The Triumphs of the Son -- Satan's Triumph -- Adam and the Winds -- The Recovery of Human Choice -- Cherishing Eve -- Dido and Armida; Creusa -- Pandora -- The Exposed Matron -- 8. Leaving Eden -- Deconsecrated Earth -- Good-bye. |
| Responsibility: | David Quint. |
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Winner of the 2015 James Holly Hanford Award, The Milton Society of America One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society "As in a great lecture, Quint never roams far from the language of the poem and as the first half of the book moves through the poem chronologically, it would be a particularly useful guide for advanced undergraduates."--Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement "This learned, groundbreaking study illuminates the intricate narrative patterns that are woven into the fabric of Paradise Lost and demonstrates the poem's deeply allusive relationship to prior epic... This book is necessary reading for Miltonists and scholars interested in the epic tradition. And the clear prose and carefully articulated arguments make it fully accessible and helpful to less experienced readers."--Choice "This learned, carefully pondered, and admirably lucid book combines some of the features of a scholarly monograph with those of a critical overview of Milton's greatest poem."--David Hopkins, Milton Quarterly "For its playful style and learned approach, readers will relish, as I did, the chance to return to originals newly brought to light, to attend to delicious intricacies of text, to quarrel, even, with findings. This is a bravura performance, a deeply learned book that should be read by students and scholars of Renaissance comparative literature, and those interested in classical reception, and will be required reading for Milton scholars and students."--Sharon Achinstein, Renassiance Quarterly "Some books matter for what they say, others for when they say it. Inside Paradise Lost matters for both these reasons, and especially for the latter. It is a timely aesthetic study which will be read and re-read by Milton scholars and students. It will be mined for its learning, discussed, challenged, and enjoyed. Literary studies will be so much the better for it."--Leah Whittington, The Cambridge Quarterly "Quint proves a deeply engaging and illuminating guide to the designs, both large and small, of Milton's epic and his career... Quint has a gift for pithy and apt eloquence... There have been many fine books on Milton's epic and its relation to the long epic tradition, but none finer than Quint's."--Stephen M. Fallon, Modern Philology "David Quint's elegant, learned, and nuanced study of Paradise Lost and its designs contains enormous riches... It is a pleasure to read a critical book so sensitive to the rich poetic texture of Milton's work. Thanks to his substantial knowledge of early modern European literature and classical reception, Quint offers a wealth of fresh readings of the poem's allusions to classical and European epics, as well as to scriptural texts."--David Loewenstein, Modern Language Quarterly Read more...
