Altering Eyes: New Perspectives on Samson AgonistesMark R. Kelley, Joseph Anthony Wittreich The essays in this volume bring under scrutiny traditional interpretations of what is widely considered Milton's last poem. As such the essays in Altering Eyes are an imitation of the writings they would illuminate, which is to say that they are "methodologically adventurous, " not merely "assimilative, " and will do the kind of work that much Milton criticism of recent decades has resisted. Evident in all these essays is a deep alliance, an interdependency between history, literature, and theory. Here philosophy and psychology, international law, economics, ethics, legal theory, aesthetics and biblical hermeneutics, the laws of genre and generic transformations, republican politics, comparative religion all come into play. Because of the paths they pursue and the critical methodologies they deploy, these eleven essays revise not only past criticism but also one another with the title of this volume, Altering Eyes, in its invocation of Blake's wise injunction that the eye altering alters all, serving as their intellectual and methodological, paradigm. |
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... seem eva- sive of theoretical scrutiny . Over time , Milton has been pushed to the margins of critical discourse , even ... seems to be ( as with his refurbishing of the Chorus in Samson Agonistes ) that because something has never fully ...
... seem eva- sive of theoretical scrutiny . Over time , Milton has been pushed to the margins of critical discourse , even ... seems to be ( as with his refurbishing of the Chorus in Samson Agonistes ) that because something has never fully ...
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... seem strange to modern readers , Hill demonstrates that Mil- ton would have heard them early and often , the first time as ... seems to validate unequivocally Samson's climactic action : he pulls down the pil- lars , in the words of the ...
... seem strange to modern readers , Hill demonstrates that Mil- ton would have heard them early and often , the first time as ... seems to validate unequivocally Samson's climactic action : he pulls down the pil- lars , in the words of the ...
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... seem to contradict himself and be changeable " ; " there can be no absolute divine decree about the action of free ... seems more volitional than rational . But Milton throughout his writings identifies reason with will so closely and ...
... seem to contradict himself and be changeable " ; " there can be no absolute divine decree about the action of free ... seems more volitional than rational . But Milton throughout his writings identifies reason with will so closely and ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Text and Context for Paradise Regaind and Samson | 22 |
Agonistes | 30 |
Copyright | |
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