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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... Chaos ( I. 1-10 , my emphasis ) This inversion of the apparent Biblical order of creation and fall obtains throughout the poem : only after we meet the fallen angels in Books I and II do we hear Uriel's account 2 Introduction.
... Chaos ( I. 1-10 , my emphasis ) This inversion of the apparent Biblical order of creation and fall obtains throughout the poem : only after we meet the fallen angels in Books I and II do we hear Uriel's account 2 Introduction.
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... poem . This large structural principle is writ small throughout Paradise Lost . Light repeatedly infuses plagues of darkness , and the exoduses follow the exiles . Satan's journey through the darkness of chaos brings him to the ...
... poem . This large structural principle is writ small throughout Paradise Lost . Light repeatedly infuses plagues of darkness , and the exoduses follow the exiles . Satan's journey through the darkness of chaos brings him to the ...
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... poetic shape : as the Bible ritualizes the creation in the sabbath , so Milton's account makes the same provision : in Book VII of Paradise Lost , the work of each day is celebrated with a complete angelic worship service . Remembering ...
... poetic shape : as the Bible ritualizes the creation in the sabbath , so Milton's account makes the same provision : in Book VII of Paradise Lost , the work of each day is celebrated with a complete angelic worship service . Remembering ...
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... poem persistently engaged in inquiring into origins : " who saw / When this creation was ? remember'st thou / Thy making , while the Maker gave thee being ? " ( V. 856-58 ) . If it is countered , it is by Raphael's injunction to Adam ...
... poem persistently engaged in inquiring into origins : " who saw / When this creation was ? remember'st thou / Thy making , while the Maker gave thee being ? " ( V. 856-58 ) . If it is countered , it is by Raphael's injunction to Adam ...
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... poetic creation where the threat of chaos also prevails . Chapter 2 concerns the poet's access to origins . Milton ... poem teaches the reader how to make distinctions , conferring that lesson in subtle and complicated ways that ...
... poetic creation where the threat of chaos also prevails . Chapter 2 concerns the poet's access to origins . Milton ... poem teaches the reader how to make distinctions , conferring that lesson in subtle and complicated ways that ...
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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Page 2 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...