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Milton's visual imagination : = imagery in Paradise Lost /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Milton's visual imagination :/ Stephen Dobranski.
Reminder of title:	imagery in Paradise Lost /
Author:	Dobranski, Stephen B.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).
Subject:	Visual perception in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316146149
ISBN:	9781316146149 (ebook)

Milton's visual imagination : = imagery in Paradise Lost /
Dobranski, Stephen B.,

Milton's visual imagination :imagery in Paradise Lost /Stephen Dobranski. - 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).

Introduction: of things invisible -- Free will and God's scales -- Heaven's gates -- Pondering satan's shield -- What do bad angels look like? -- Transported touch -- Clustering and curling locks -- Images of the future and the son -- Postscript.

Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton's imagery - traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic's narrative while expressing the author's heterodox beliefs. In particular, Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton's material philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton's epic.

ISBN: 9781316146149 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

860357
Milton, John,
1608-1674.Paradise lost.Subjects--Topical Terms:

800898
Visual perception in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR3562 / .D64 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 821/.4

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