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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Paradise Regained"”.
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Giving and Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Adiaphora in A Mask and Paradise Regained
… Medine has shown the prominence of gratitude in Paradise Lost, but scholars have not fully appreciated the role of this virtue elsewhere in Milton's writing. This thesis is an attempt to redress that oversight with reference to A Mask and Paradise Regained, while also answering a question that …
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"Taught by the Heavenly Muse": typology and Milton's prophetic voice in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
… upon typical patterns in the Bible. In this way, Paradise Lost functions as an "Old Testament" concealed: Paradise Regained functions as a "New Testament" where the Old is revealed. Furthermore, Milton's bold experiments in typology are entirely compatible with his perception of himself as …
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"By one man's firm obedience fully tried" : Christ the man and messianic misconception in Paradise Regained.
My study of Paradise Regained began with a detailed consideration of the puzzling banquet scene Milton places between the first and second biblical temptations. I soon determined, however, that the banquet is not a temptation concerned with food as an end but as a means. I believe that Milton …
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… epics— Abraham Cowley's Davideis, John Milton's Paradise Regained, and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and spiritual formation of their readers. In my study of these authors' biblical epics, I focus on their use of epideictic rhetoric: speech …
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The Theme of Free Will in Milton's Major Poems
… themes in his four most important poems. In Paradise Lost, free will functions as a destructive impulse motivating the tragedy. In Paradise Regained, it is the constructive force responsible for the triumphant conclusion to the story of the fall. In Samson Agonistes. we are spectators to the …
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"In whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero": Milton and the Elizabethan tradition of Christian learning
… yet never is astray." This study of Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained against the background of the Elizabethan theory of Christian learning has been focused upon a few pertinent texts which are concerned with ideas which Milton propounds in his epic poems. It has therefore been …
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Milton's Emerging View of Fame and the Heroic Life
By the writing of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, Milton clearly defines fame in Christian terms. His method is generally parodic; he throws into relief true fame by parodying its false varieties. Thus he makes a clear distinction between earthly fame and heavenly fame. …
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Apocalypse: a study of myth and archetype in the novels of Calixthe Beyala
… around three principal archetypal themes, lost paradise, exile and paradise regained, and that her novels are themselves peopled by archetypal characters, the barren woman, the absent father and the trickster among others. Dominant among these archetypes is the theme of apocalypse, which is …
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'n Ondersoek na die dualisme tussen vitalisme en mortalisme in die poësie van die Nederlandse digter Hendrik Marsman
… In Chapter 2 the poems of the anthology Paradise Regained are discussed. The speaker strives for a perfect relationship with his lover in order to protect him from death. This union appears to be ineffective against the powers of the night, darkness and death. In Chapter 3 the poems of …
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Religious allegory in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
… religion-related sources, primarily Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Malville employed that characters to reaffirm God's universal law. He created the major figures in the allegorical method of dual characterization: Claggart, who represents Satan, is also a symbol of evil; Billy, …
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The Nature of the Interplay of Classical and Biblical Intertexts in Milton's Poetry
… from the centre to outlying sections of <i>Paradise Lost</i>. My published work charts a new path in Milton studies, arguing that, by accommodating the action of his War in Heaven to the three-day pattern of Christ’s death and Resurrection, and setting the event in book 6 of a twelve-book …
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"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh" : mockery and typology in Milton's poetry.
… of divine mockery in the education of Adam in Paradise Lost. I first contextualize God's mockery of Satan within Raphael's pedagogical account of the war in heaven. Then I analyze Michael's emphasis on the affections in his preparation of Adam for the fallen condition. Chapter Five discusses …