Milton and the poetics of freedom
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Milton and the poetics of freedom
(Medieval and Renaissance literary studies)
Duquesne University Press, c2013
- : cloth
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index
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内容説明
In our contemporary Western culture, freedom is a powerful term with elastic meanings and contradictory uses; it has both driven rebellion and justified empire. John Miltons world, like our own, struggled to understand freedom within what was already considered a heritage of political and personal liberty, compounded in the seventeenth century by theological questions of freedom. In this important new study, Susanne Woods reveals Miltons central place in the evolution both of ideas of freedom in English-speaking culture and in creating a poetics that invites readers to enact the freedom Milton defines. For Milton, we find, freedom is fundamentally about human choice; God gave humankind genuine free will, with reason and the light of conscience to enable choice. True freedom comes from who one is, formed and asserted by the choices one makes. This is true for the reader as well as for the author, Milton believed, and the result is what Woods terms an "invitational poetics". By locating freedom in thoughtful choice, in other words, Milton must offer his reader opportunities to consider alternatives, even to his own well-argued positions.
In six chapters, Woods examines these invitational poetics on several levels: as they develop in Miltons prose and early poetry, in theory as well as practice; as they are expressed within prose sentences and lines of poetry through choices of diction and syntax; and as they inform character, plot, and genre. Chapter 1 connects Miltons most famous statement about his ongoing interest in liberty with debates that preceded him. Chapter 2 shows Miltons Elizabethan predecessors grappling with the possibilities and limits of poetic indirection; Philip Sidney, in particular, provides an under-appreciated rhetorical and theoretical foundation on which Miltons invitational poetics could build. These background chapters allow us to see Miltons evolution toward a poetics of choice, followed by their confident manifestation in the great poems. Later chapters consider Paradise Lost as Miltons grand disquisition on knowledge, choice, and freedom; and Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes in relation to the ambiguities of choice and vocation.
Finally, Milton is situated in relation to the most influential seventeenth century political thinkers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, and Woods examines the influence of Areopagitica on political culture since Miltons time, placing Miltons ideas in a tradition that leads to modern contestations of freedom.
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