Barbarous dissonance and images of voice in Milton's epics / Elizabeth Sauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.

Milton, John.

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise regained.

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 213 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sauer investigates the texts' discursive practices and the politics of their orchestration of voice exploring the ways in which Milton's multivocal poems interrogated dominant structures of authority in the seventeenth century and constructed in their place a community of voices characterized by dissonances. She incorporates different critical responses to Milton's texts into her argument as a way of contextualizing her own historically engaged approach. By injecting concepts such as multiple narrators and genres, open forms, strategic deferrals, and the exchanges between the poetic voices and discourses of the early modern period, Sauer tells us something about how the poems spoke to their own time as well as how they may be recuperated to speak to ours.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Voices and Politics of Nimrod

Critical Interventions

"I now must change Those notes to Tragic" The Sad Task of Raphael, Satan, and the Poet-narrator

The Gendered Hierarchy of Discourse

"Learning to Curse": Colonialism and Censorship in Paradise

The Voices of Nebuchadnezzar in Paradise Regained

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85406-2

9786612854064

0-7735-6614-7

OCLC:

929120765