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