Paradise lost and the rhetoric of literary forms / Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, 1931-2018, author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary form--History--17th century.

Literary form.

Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.

Milton, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1985]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Paradise Lost As Encyclopedic Epic: The Uses Of Literary Forms

Chapter 2. Inspiration and Literary Art: The Prophet-Poets of Paradise Lost

Chapter 3. "Argument Heroic Deem'd": The Genres of the Satanic Heroic Mode

Chapter 4. "Semblance of Worth, not Substance": The Discursive and Lyric Genres of the Damned

Chapter 5. "Other Excellence": Generic Multiplicity and Milton's Literary God

Chapter 6. "Our Happy State": Literary Forms for Angelic Wholeness

Chapter 7. "A Happy Rural Seat of Various View": Pastoral Idyl and the Genres of Edenic Innocence

Chapter 8. "Our Pleasant Labor": Georgic and Comedic Modes and Genres in Eden

Chapter 9. "I Now Must Change Those Notes to Tragic": The Fall and the Tragic Genres

Chapter 10. "Not Less but More Heroic": Prophecy and the Transformation of Literary Forms

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691639581

0691639582

9781400853953

1400853958

9780691611587

0691611580

OCLC:

884013624