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Creating States : Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake /

Analysing texts such as The Reason of Church Government, Paradise Lost, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem, Esterhammer traces the parallel evolution of Milton and Blake from writers of political and anti-prelatical tracts to poets who, having failed in their attempts to alter historical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Esterhammer, Angela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Words, Worlds, Acts, and Visions
  • 1. Performative Language and Visionary Poetry
  • 2. Speech Acts and World-Creation
  • 3. The Language of Inspiration in Milton's Prose
  • 4. Paradise Lost: The Creation of Poetry and the Poetry of Creation
  • 5. The Circumference of Vision: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
  • 6. Binding the Infinite: Blake's Brief Epics
  • 7. Blake's Jerusalem: Statements and States.