Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms

by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Overview

This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem.

Originally published in 1985.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691639581
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #186
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• Contents, pg. vii
• Preface, pg. ix
• Abbreviations, pg. xi
• Chapter 1. Paradise Lost As Encyclopedic Epic: The Uses Of Literary Forms, pg. 1
• Chapter 2. Inspiration and Literary Art: The Prophet-Poets of Paradise Lost, pg. 25
• Chapter 3. "Argument Heroic Deem'd": The Genres of the Satanic Heroic Mode, pg. 55
• Chapter 4. "Semblance of Worth, not Substance": The Discursive and Lyric Genres of the Damned, pg. 79
• Chapter 5. "Other Excellence": Generic Multiplicity and Milton's Literary God, pg. 110
• Chapter 6. "Our Happy State": Literary Forms for Angelic Wholeness, pg. 140
• Chapter 7. "A Happy Rural Seat of Various View": Pastoral Idyl and the Genres of Edenic Innocence, pg. 173
• Chapter 8. "Our Pleasant Labor": Georgic and Comedic Modes and Genres in Eden, pg. 196
• Chapter 9. "I Now Must Change Those Notes to Tragic": The Fall and the Tragic Genres, pg. 220
• Chapter 10. "Not Less but More Heroic": Prophecy and the Transformation of Literary Forms, pg. 254
• Notes, pg. 281
• Index, pg. 361