Carnal rhetoric : Milton's iconoclasm and the poetics of desire / Lana Cable.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cable, Lana.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Technique.

Milton, John.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Rhetoric.

English language.

Poetics--History--17th century.

Poetics.

Modernism (Literature)--England.

Modernism (Literature).

Iconoclasm in literature.

Desire in literature.

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton's poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism. In Carnal Rhetoric, Lana Cable carries these investigations further by exploring the iconoclastic impulse in Milton's works through detailed analyses of his use of metaphor. Building on a provocative iconoclastic theory of metaphor, she breaks new ground in the area of affective stylistics, not only as it pertains to the writings of Milton but also to all expressive language.Cable tra

Contents:

1 Metaphor and "Meaning": Toward a Theory of Creative Iconoclasm

2 "Shuffling up such a God": The Rhetorical Agon of Milton's Antiprelatical Tracts

3 "Was she thy God?": The Coupling Rhetoric of the Divorce Tracts

4 "The image of God in the eye": Areopagitica's Truth

5 "Unimprisonable utterance": Imagination and the Attack on Eikon Basilike

6 Samson's Transformative Desire.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-223) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062741

9781283062749

1283062747

9780822382409

0822382407

OCLC:

213455245