Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise LostCambridge University Press, 1988 - 144 pages As a reinterpretation of Milton, this study engages the ideas of Freud, Nietzsche, and Derrida. However, the author derives her thesis from Milton's own debt to ancient Biblical sources. The Bible, says Schwartz, offers Milton a pattern of repeated beginnings that informs his depiction of the universe and characterizes his poetic and interpretative processes. This original reading of the Bible enables a powerful rereading of Paradise Lost. |
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... memory , and by a theory that casts doubt on the ability of language to convey origins at all . Milton does not even depict the cosmic creation as a privileged beginning , a single event that occurred once - upon - a - time and for all ...
... memory , and by a theory that casts doubt on the ability of language to convey origins at all . Milton does not even depict the cosmic creation as a privileged beginning , a single event that occurred once - upon - a - time and for all ...
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... memory of the completion of his task , and dedicated it to rest " ; Milton then directs us to Genesis 2 : 2-3 and Exodus 31:17 : " Six days shall work be done , but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest , holy to the Lord ...
... memory of the completion of his task , and dedicated it to rest " ; Milton then directs us to Genesis 2 : 2-3 and Exodus 31:17 : " Six days shall work be done , but the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest , holy to the Lord ...
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... memory of what is to be remembered on his hearers.10 As Moses retells the exodus , he asks that the Israelites similarly retell those events to subsequent generations . This commemoration is not simply retrospective ; it is also forward ...
... memory of what is to be remembered on his hearers.10 As Moses retells the exodus , he asks that the Israelites similarly retell those events to subsequent generations . This commemoration is not simply retrospective ; it is also forward ...
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... memory , mere repetition , like Blake's " same dull round , " is predicated upon forgetting . Satan's stubborn will to reenact his battle with substitutes entraps him in an endless cycle he cannot escape . In contrast , Adamic ...
... memory , mere repetition , like Blake's " same dull round , " is predicated upon forgetting . Satan's stubborn will to reenact his battle with substitutes entraps him in an endless cycle he cannot escape . In contrast , Adamic ...
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Contents
And the sea was no more Chaos vs creation | 8 |
The unclean realm | 11 |
Cosmogonic conflict | 24 |
Chaos and the fall | 31 |
Secret gaze or open admiration The invitation to origins | 40 |
Curiosity and knowledge | 41 |
Things visible to mortal sight | 53 |
Remember and tell over Creation in sacred song | 60 |
Cosmic liturgy | 77 |
Paradise Lost as hymn | 83 |
Yet once more Recreation repetition and return | 91 |
The Satanic will | 94 |
Adamic return | 103 |
Notes | 111 |
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