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Milton and the Reformation aesthetics of the passion /

This book addresses the problem of Milton's poetics of the passion, a tradition he revises by turning away from late medieval representations of the crucifixion and drawing instead on earlier Christian images and alternative strategies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henriksen, Erin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 145.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Milton's poetics of absence and restoration
  • Strategies for depicting the Son in Christian art
  • Iconoclasm as an artistic strategy
  • The post-Reformation passion
  • Milton's alternative passion
  • "No death!" : rewriting the Protestant elegy in Milton's early poems
  • The art of omission and supplement in Paradise lost
  • Paradise regained and the art of the incarnation
  • Rewriting the Christus patiens tradition in Samson agonistes
  • Epilogue: Broken and whole.