Flannagan John Milton

A Short Introduction
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69287-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to Literature

In this compelling first volume in the Blackwell Introductionsto Literature series, Roy Flannagan, editor of The MiltonQuarterly, provides a readable and uncluttered critical accountof a complicated and sophisticated author, and his poetry andprose.
* * Puts John Milton under the microscope, using the still-evolvingcritical perspectives of the last fifty years.
* Looks at Milton's life, and the cultural background tohis work, as well as examining his writing.
* Considers how and why Milton's work has endured thecenturies to educate, entertain and intrigue so many generations ofreaders.
* Ideal for the reader falling in love with Milton's poetryand prose, who longs to know more about what people think about thepoetry, the man or the historical context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flannagan, Roy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Mercantile Milton.
2. Milton's Private and Public Education.
3. Educated Milton: John Milton, Gentleman.
4. Milton and Shakespeare.
5. Milton the Omnivorous Reader.
6. Political Milton.
7. Place in History.
8.The Prodigy.
9. Milton the Friend.
10. Milton Abroad.
11. First-married Milton.
12. Milton the Divorcer.
13. Infamous Milton.
14. "The Great Milton".
15. Milton the Egoist.
16. The Myth of the Unattractive Milton.
17. Physical Appearance.
18. Class-consciousness.
19. Milton's Sense of Humor.
20. Milton's First Great Poem.
21. "L'Allegro".
22. "Lycidas".
23. Elegies in Latin and English.
24. Decorum, Genre, and Modes: the Nativity Ode.
25. Sonnets.
26. The Serious and Even the Puritan, Masque.
27. Arcades.
28. The Masque often known as Comus.
29. Musical Entertainment.
30. Fairy-tale Plot.
31. Politics.
32. Performance and Character.
33. The One Just Man, or Woman.
34. Against the Bishops.
35. The Reason of Church-Government.
36. Wonder Years.
37. Of Education.
38. Divorce as a Serious Subject.
39. Prose Masterpiece: Areopagitica.
40. The Blind Warrior.
41. Plans for Great Tragedies.
42. Milton's Theological Niche.
43. The Baroque in Space and Time.
44. Blindness.
45. Narrator.
46. Solitude, Patience, etc.
47. The One Just Man.
48. Free Will, Disturbing.
49. A Creative God.
50. "Satan, He's a Liar".
51. Satan, Sin, and Death.
52. Plot and Parallel Scenes.
53. Competitiveness.
54. Self-fashioning.
55. A Remarkable Memory.
56. Slow Reading, on Purpose.
57. Epic Similes.
58. Explication.
59. Etymology.
60. The Printing of Paradise Lost.
61. Imperialism.
62. Monarchy.
63. "Paradise Found".
64. The Plot of the Brief Epic.
65. Paradise Regain'd and the Problems of a Cold-seeming Son ofGod.
66. Problems of Presenting a Speaking Jesus.
67. The Son as Student.
68. Diminished Satan.
69. Epic Devices in Miniature.
70. Political Undertones.
71. Searches for Meaning in Epithets.
72. Socrates, the Biblical Job, etc.
73. Class Warfare.
74. Quiet Closure.
75. Unpretentious Poetic Style.
76. Samson Agonistes and the Problem of Dating.
77. The Plot of the Dramatic Poem.
78. The Agon or Struggle in Samson Agonistes.
79. Harapha, his Giantship.
80. The Temptations to Luxury or Idleness.
81. A Chorus You Can't always Believe.
82. Quiet Closure of the Tragedy and the Short Epic.
83. In the End, "One's country is where it is well withone.".
84. Aftermath: Milton's Influence.
Works Cited.

Über Autor(innen)

Roy Flannaganbegan what was to become the Milton Quarterly in 1967. Hehas been the President of the Milton Society of America, and hefollowed C. S. Lewis and Northrop Frye as Honored Scholar of theSociety in 2001. Editor of the Riverside Milton, he is alsoPresident of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. After 32years at Ohio University, he has taken the position of Scholar inResidence at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.