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Authors to Themselves - Milton and the Revelation of History (Hardcover)
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Authors to Themselves - Milton and the Revelation of History (Hardcover)
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Grossman examines the narrative form of Paradise Lost to discover
Milton's thoroughly modern concept of self. Banished from paradise,
the epic poem's protagonists become "authors to themselves in
all/Both what they judge and what they choose," left to create
their own story in relation to the story already written by God.
Grossman believes the resulting structure of the poem must be
understood in the context of seventeenth-century historical and
theological developments, specifically Bacon's notion of history as
progress and Protestant theology's notion of the inner voice. The
book draws upon recent works in hermeneutics and analytic history
to develop the argument that there is a common structure to the
experience of time in action and in narrative. In developing this
thesis, Grossman draws on the work Stephen Greenblatt, Ricoeur,
Todorov, Genette, Derrida, and Lacan to construct an original
reading of Paradise Lost that will fascinate Miltonists,
specialists in seventeenth-century literature, and readers
concerned with narrative theory.
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