The Satanic EpicPrinceton University Press, 2003 - 382 страници The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. |
Съдържание
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
2 God is not the devil | 8 |
3 The Narrative Theology of therefore | 12 |
4 The most heroic subject that ever was chosen | 18 |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SATAN | 24 |
1 The Old Enemy | 25 |
2 Ancient Myth and Epic | 28 |
3 Hesiod | 30 |
THE EPIC VOICE | 77 |
2 Hope and Despair | 81 |
3 Dark designs | 86 |
4 Devils into Dwarfs | 87 |
5 The Critical Need for the Narrator | 90 |
FOLLOW THE LEADER | 114 |
2 Approaching Paradise | 124 |
4 Paradise | 138 |
4 Apocalypses | 35 |
5 The satan | 37 |
6 The New Testament | 39 |
7 The Early Church | 43 |
8 Heresy | 45 |
9 Medieval Heresy | 49 |
10 Old English Genesis to Chaucer | 50 |
11 Satans Rebellion | 54 |
12 Warfare and Imperialism | 56 |
13 Elizabethan Drama | 60 |
14 Politics | 62 |
15 The Miltonic Moment | 64 |
16 Subversive Satan | 66 |
17 Critical Controversies | 69 |
MY SELF AM HELL | 147 |
SATANS REBELLION | 166 |
THE LANGUAGE | 188 |
OF MANS FIRST DIS | 217 |
THE ATTENDANCE MOTIF | 239 |
SATAN TEMPTER | 259 |
IO IF THEY WILL HEAR | 285 |
AT THE SIGN OF THE DOVE AND SERPENT | 301 |
THE STRUCTURES | 314 |
SIGNS PORTENTOUS | 329 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 349 |
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