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Dobranski, Stephen B.

Milton's visual imaginationimagery in Paradise Lost /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Milton's visual imaginationStephen Dobranski.
Reminder of title:	imagery in Paradise Lost /
Author:	Dobranski, Stephen B.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2015.
Description:	xiii, 219 p. :digital ;24 cm.
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$q(electronic bk.)

Milton's visual imaginationimagery in Paradise Lost /
Dobranski, Stephen B.

Milton's visual imaginationimagery in Paradise Lost /[electronic resource] :Stephen Dobranski. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2015. - xiii, 219 p. :digital ;24 cm.

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$q(electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

195722
Milton, John,
1608-1674.Subjects--Topical Terms:

220860
Visual perception in literature.

LC Class. No.: PR3562 / .D64 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 821.4

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