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Development plan for the Pine Tree Brook Watershed (West Milton) Milton, Massachusetts
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, January 1951.
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Milton and the Quakers
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Milton and the Zohar
This research is a comparative investigation of Milton and the Zohar divided into six Chapters. The similarities in ideas are discussed and possible indebtedness to the Kabbalah is duly noted where appropriate. In Chapter One the central symbolical code of the 'tree of life' is related to the …
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Milton's cryptic figures.
… many have examined Paradise Lost in terms of Milton's use of rhetorical figures, and while several have considered how Milton's Ramist logic text Artis Logicae may inform readings of his poetry and prose, no one yet has shown how rhetorical figures in his epic display crypsis, a mode of …
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Discordant Poetics: Spenser to Milton
… Michael Drayton, William Davenant, and John Milton. The second chapter looks at Spenser’s Faerie Queene. I argue that Spenser was influenced by Tasso’s arguments regarding the importance of discord as a key aspect of epic form, which informs his Gerusalemme Liberata at the various levels of …
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John Milton: A Cause Without a Rebel
John Milton has been frequently associated with rebellion, both by modern scholars and by his contemporaries. Objectively speaking, he may very well be a rebel; however, looking to his own works complicates the issue. In fact, Milton makes very clear in his writing, especially in The Tenure of …
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The English sonnet from Wyatt to Milton
… revived and transformed by the glorious touch of Milton. Since Milton's time the sonnet has remained pretty much the same; and has been the medium for the expression of noble feelings for some of our greatest poets. The period from Wyatt to Milton, and especially the last decade of the sixteenth …
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Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton
… <em>The Faerie Queene</em> and Sin from Milton's <em>Paradise Lost</em> are descendants of the Medieval Beast. Her presence in Malory, Spenser, and Milton provides an unexplored link between Malory and Milton that opens Miltonian studies to further analysis through a Medieval lens. The …
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Rhetorics of identity from Shakespeare to Milton
… primarily with Renaissance tragedy and with Milton's Paradise Lost. It is structured around three main Sections each of which identifies a dominant theme in the drama/poetry of the period 1580-1670 and considers the way in which it is utilised in order to express or represent what was …
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Milton Park : housing ownership and community control
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch. in Advanced Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
… and conceptions of exile as it is presented by Milton, Shelley and Byron. Utilizing biopolitical theory as a lens, it posits that the Satanic iteration or narrative of exile embodies the reality of worldly exile. As such the dissertation explores the complex framing and subsequent deconstruction …
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Milton, Early Modern Culture, and the Poetics of Messianic Time
… interdisciplinary interpretation of John Milton's engagement with millennial ideas that takes into equal account the historical context of seventeenth-century religious and political controversy, the ways in which the pending apocalypse transformed how people imagined and experienced time, …
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Milton and Prose: The Art of Logic as a Rhetoric
… thesis is to present an inductive study of John Milton's theory of rhetoric. Milton's theory of rhetoric may be established by a consideration of the rhetorical practices and theories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by examination of Milton's Art of Logic, and by examination of the …
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The Garden Tradition and Dramatic Experience in Marvell and Milton
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A Devil of a Coincidence: Study on Milton and Gower
… of literary history. The work, written by John Milton, depicts Satan's fall from Heaven and subsequent deeds on Earth and in Hell. One of the more remarkable and, often, most overlooked scenes in the story involves the distinctive personification of Sin and Death. Milton depicts Sin as the …
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O exílio da memória: Milton Santos e a ditadura civil-militar
… dictatorship on the career of intellectual Milton Almeida dos Santos (1926-2001), and the specificities of the violence committed by the dictatorial regime. Well-known for his influential work in Geography, Milton Santos also worked as a journalist in the 1950s and 1960s, in addition to …
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Erasmian humanism and the utopias of Thomas More and John Milton
… Humanism on the political thought of John Milton and Thomas More, and argues that Milton’s politics was utopian like More’s. In true Erasmian spirit, their utopias blend classical ethics and Christian beliefs and emphasize education and training in virtue. However, virtue was significant to …
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