Author : Louis Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107029465
Short, accessible essays from fifteen recognized Milton specialists touching on the most important topics and themes in Paradise Lost.
Author : Dennis Danielson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494184
An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in which his works were published and received, a fresh sense of the importance of his early poems and Samson Agonistes, and the changes wrought by gender studies on the criticism of the previous decade. By contrast with other introductions to Milton, this Companion gathers an international team of scholars, whose informative, stimulating and often argumentative essays will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Milton studies.
Author : Louis Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139941135
Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the poem itself unfolds, offering exactly what readers need as they approach each movement of its grand design. Part I introduces the characters who frame the poem's story and set its plot and theological dynamics in motion. Part II deals with contextual issues raised by the early books, while Part III examines the epic's central and final episodes. The volume concludes with a meditation on the history of the poem's reception and a detailed guide to further reading, offering students and teachers of Milton fresh critical insights and resources for continuing scholarship.
Author : Dennis Danielson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521655439
Introduces readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it.
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2018
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Short, accessible essays from fifteen recognized Milton specialists touching on the most important topics and themes in Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates.
Author : Dennis Danielson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107033608
This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are "world[s] / Of destined habitation." Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science.
Author : Graham H. Twelftree
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Miracles
ISBN : 0521899869
Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521858887
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107493730
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827863
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.
