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Barbarous dissonance and images of voice in Milton's epics

Elizabeth Sauer brings a new perspective to Milton scholarship through her examination of the relative status and authority of the multiple narrative voices in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. She argues that Milton's epics accommodate a variety of interpretive voices, episodes, and dramatic and discursive exchanges that resist the monological containment of the poems' dominant narratives.

Sauer investigates the texts' discursive practices and the politics of their orchestration of voice, exploring the ways in which Milton's multivocal poems interrogated dominant structures of authority in the seventeenth century and constructed in their place a community of voices characterized by dissonances. She incorporates different critical responses to Milton's texts into her argument as a way of contextualizing her own historically engaged approach.

By injecting concepts such as multiple narrators and genres, open forms, strategic deferrals, and the exchanges between the poetic voices and discourses of the early modern period, Sauer tells us something about how the poems spoke to their own time as well as how they may be recuperated to speak to ours.

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English
Pages
213

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Barbarous dissonance and images of voice in Milton's epics
1996, McGill-Queen's University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-207) and index.

Published in
Montreal, Buffalo

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR3562 .S314 1996, PR3562 .S384 1996

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Pagination
x, 213 p. ;
Number of pages
213

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Open Library
OL284743M
ISBN 10
0773514287
LCCN
97187570, cn96900477
OCLC/WorldCat
35810941
Library Thing
6171782
Goodreads
969610

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