Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings
Title | Why Milton Matters: A New Preface to His Writings PDF eBook |
Author | J. Wittreich |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2015-12-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230601421 |
Wittreich demonstrates why Milton may prove to be the poet for the new millennium, in a book of interest to scholars and general readers. It engages the canonical Milton, as well as the Milton of popular culture, and uses the tools of theory- especially affective stylistics and reception history, to read Milton in his historical moment and our own.
Women (Re)Writing Milton
Title | Women (Re)Writing Milton PDF eBook |
Author | Mandy Green |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000375811 |
This volume of essays reconfigures the reception history of Milton and his works by bringing to the fore women reading, writing, and rewriting Milton, bringing together in conversation a range of voices from diverse historical, cultural, religious, and social contexts across the globe and through the centuries. The book encompasses a rich range of different literary genres, artistic media, and academic disciplines and draws on the research of established Milton scholars and new Miltonists. Like the female authors and artists whom they explore, the contributors take up a variety of standpoints. As well as revisiting the work of established figures, the volume brings new female creative artists, new subjects, and new approaches to the study of Milton.
The New Milton Criticism
Title | The New Milton Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | Peter C. Herman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2012-04-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107019222 |
A collection of new essays demonstrating a wholly new approach to the complexities of Milton's work.
The Cambridge Introduction to Milton
Title | The Cambridge Introduction to Milton PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen B. Dobranski |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2012-01-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521898188 |
This book makes Milton's works accessible and enjoyable by providing engaging and lucid explanations of his life, times and writings.
Milton and the Post-Secular Present
Title | Milton and the Post-Secular Present PDF eBook |
Author | Feisal Mohamed |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011-08-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0804780730 |
Our post-secular present, argues Feisal Mohamed, has much to learn from our pre-secular past. Through a consideration of poet and polemicist John Milton, this book explores current post-secularity, an emerging category that it seeks to clarify and critique. It examines ethical and political engagement grounded in belief, with particular reference to the thought of Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Gayatri C. Spivak. Taken to an extreme, such engagement produces the cult of the suicide bomber. But the suicide bomber has also served as a convenient bogey for those wishing to distract us from the violence in Western and Christian traditions and for those who would dismiss too easily the vigorous iconoclasm that belief can produce. More than any other poet, Milton alerts us to both anti-humane and liberationist aspects of belief and shows us relevant dynamics of language by which such commitment finds expression.
Milton Now
Title | Milton Now PDF eBook |
Author | C. Gray |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 547 |
Release | 2014-12-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137383100 |
By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts.
Milton and the Politics of Public Speech
Title | Milton and the Politics of Public Speech PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Lynch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317095952 |
Using Hannah Arendt’s account of the Greek polis to explain Milton’s fascination with the idea of public speech, this study reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. The book shows how Milton uses rhetorical theory - its ideas, techniques and image patterns - to dramatise the struggle between ’good’ and ’bad’ oratory, and to fashion his own model of divinely inspired public utterance. Connecting his polemical and imaginative writing in new ways, the book discusses the subliminal rhetoric at work in Milton’s political prose and the systematic scrutiny of the power of oratory in his major poetry. By setting Milton in the context of other Civil War polemicists, of classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations, and of Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the book sheds new light on his work across several genres, culminating in an extended Arendtian reading of his ’Greek’ drama Samson Agonistes.