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Speech Acts in Blake's Milton (Hardcover)
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Speech Acts in Blake's Milton (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
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Using a framework based on J. L. Austin's understanding of
performative speech and Angela Esterhammer's work on how things are
done with words in Milton's and Blake's poetry, this study provides
an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in
Blake's epic poem Milton. With the exception of what we learn about
in the part of the poem known as the Bard's Song, Blake's Milton is
dedicated to providing an incredibly detailed account of the
numerous facets of the instant of time immediately prior to
apocalypse, an instant in which Milton is the protagonist, and
Blake himself a participant. This study explores how in the poem
sacred history proceeds towards and through the instant by means of
the speech act. This extended commentary is intended for not just
Blake scholars but also the common reader who wishes to approach
Blake's brief epic for the first time. For scholars, this monograph
offers a full account of a crucial but previously unexplored theme
in the scholarship about Milton. For the common reader, it offers a
comprehensive introduction to what Northrop Frye called 'one of the
most gigantic imaginative achievements in English poetry'.
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