Remembering and Repeating - Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost (Hardcover, New)

Despite Milton's preoccupation with origins - he depicts the birth of the first man and the first woman, the first utterance, the first interpretation, the first law, the first home, the first exile - these elude him. His creation stories are always mediated, by accounts and accounts of accounts. Even the creation of the universe is not depicted as a single event that occurred once and for all time in a distant past; instead, world-order must be perpetually reasserted, before the ever present threat of chaos. That description of Milton's universe also applies to his other creation, the poem, where the chaos that forever threatens is the abyss of interpretation. Milton's creations are not asserted despite this threat, but because of it; that is, chaos does not simply threaten to undo order, for chaos inheres in it. While Milton's inability to discover a privileged origin allies him with postmodernism - and so this study engages thinkers like Freud, Nietzsche, Derrida, and Lacan - that insight is far more ancient. According to Regina Schwartz, the Bible offers Milton his pattern of repeated beginnings.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1989
First published:	1988
Authors:	Regina M. Schwartz
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	156
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-34357-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-521-34357-7
Barcode:	9780521343572

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