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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

First published in 1980. Paradise Lost was once a favourite text for family reading; today it is confined to the educational system which treats it as an object to be investigated rather than a subject that demands response. Professor Hunter writes inevitably for an audience of literary students but he invites them to consider Paradise Lost as a text that must be enjoyed before it can be explained. He understands the need to explain complexities but is mainly concerned with the onward flow of our engagement with an ancient poem. Milton’s narrative technique is explored as a system which both encourages and frustrates our native sense of story. His poetic power is shown to grow from our assent to its brilliant evocation of as if fictions. Milton is a master of audience manipulation of dramatic tension and intellectual paradox. These characteristics are described in the context of the task the poem sets itself to tell the untellable and describe what no man has ever seen. The power of Milton’s art is traced through his rehandling of Homer and Virgil and in his daringly individual fidelity to scripture. Professor Hunter does not try to smooth away the contradictions inherent in Milton’s ambition to write an English classical Christian epic. He rather stresses the contradictions as cues to a properly alert reading. And this is what the book aims at above all a response to Paradise Lost which is alert to poetry and unintimidated by scholarship.

GBP 29.99
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Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

First published in 1971. The intention of Milton’s Creation is to provide the student with a simple and direct entry into Paradise Lost. The author is not concerned with taking sides in critical controversy. His aim is to elucidate Milton’s primary meanings; this is a work of exegesis not of interpretation. In this new book on arguably the greatest epic in the English language the central substance of Milton’s ‘great Argument’ is articulated with great clarity. By keeping in mind the epic status and universality common to Paradise Lost and Ulysses the author introduces a post-Joycean perspective into his vision of Milton’s Creation. | Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

GBP 32.99
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Milton: Paradise Lost

Milton: Paradise Lost

Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature of any time and in any language. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition it is a work epic both in scale and notoriously in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture. First published in 1968 with John Carey's Complete Shorter Poems Alastair Fowler's Paradise Lost is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative edition of this compelling work. An unprecedented amount of detailed annotation accompanies the full text of the first (1667) edition providing a wealth of contextual information to enrich and enhance the reader's experience. Notes on composition and context are combined with a clear explication of the multitude allusions Milton called to the poem's aid. The notes also summarise and illuminate the vast body of critical attention the poem has attracted synthesizing the ancient and the modern to provide a comprehensive account both of the poem's development and its reception. Meanwhile Alastair Fowler's invigorating introduction surveys the whole poem and looks in detail at such matters as Milton's theology metrical structure and most valuably his complex and imaginary astronomy. The result is an enduring landmark in the field of Milton scholarship and an invaluable guide for readers of all levels. | Milton: Paradise Lost

GBP 170.00
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The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost Reading against the Grain

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost Reading against the Grain

The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers like Dryden Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton Shears devotes a chapter to each of the major Romantic poets contextualizing their 'misreadings' of Milton within a range of historical aesthetic and theoretical contexts and discourses. By tackling the vexed issue of whether Paradise Lost by its nature makes available and encourages alternate readings or whether misreadings are imposed on the poem from without Shears argues that the Romantic inclination towards fragmentation and a polysemous aesthetic leads to disrupted readings of Paradise Lost that obscure the theme or warp the 'grain' of the poem. Shears concludes by examining the ways in which the legacy of Romantic misreading continues to shape critical responses to Milton's epic. | The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost Reading against the Grain

GBP 38.99
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Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism

Paradise Lost and the Making of English Literary Criticism identifies the early reception of Paradise Lost as a site of contest over the place of literature in political and religious controversy. Milton’s earliest readers and critics (Dryden Addison Dennis Hume and Bentley) confronted a poem and author at odds with the prevailing culture and the revanchist conservatism of the restored monarchy. Grappling with the epic required navigating Milton’s reputation as a “fanatick” who had called in print for Charles I’s execution inveighed openly against monarchy on the eve of Charles II’s return and held heretical views on the trinity baptism and divorce. Harper argues that foundational figures in English literary criticism rose to this challenge by innovating new ways of reading: producing creative (and subversive) rewritings of Paradise Lost articulating new theories of the sublime explaining the poem in the first substantial body of annotations for an English vernacular text and by pioneering early forms of textual criticism and editing.

GBP 130.00
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Postal 2: Paradise Lost Steam CD Key

Postal 2: Paradise Lost Steam CD Key

Paradise Lost is a full-fledged expansion pack for POSTAL 2 continuing the saga of the POSTAL series. Join the Dude as he ventures back into his former hometown embarking on a quest to find his lost dog. Not all is at it seems, as the once tranquil (relatively speaking) town and its citizens have been transformed in the wake of the nuclear destruction. Dare to enter the varied Zones as you cross the Arid Desert, trek through the dense Rainy Foliage, freeze your nuts off in the Nuclear Winter, and roam under the Ashen Skies. Meet the many mysterious factions comprised of the towering, the miniature, the zombified, and everything in between and use your radiant people skills to attempt to ally yourself with their enigmatic leaders, ranging from former child stars to terrifying demonic udder-wielding beasts! Fierce Lawmen, crazed Bandits, deranged Doomsday Survivalists, and a phallic child's toy mascot await. Do whatever it takes to survive! Wait in lines! Use vending machines! Buy toilet paper! Journey to where it all began to rescue your loyal companion! Prepare to delve into the post-apocalyptic world of Paradise Lost! FeaturesA complete singleplayer campaign: Brave Monday through Friday with twists and turns each day. Free roam, non-linear, errand-based gameplay: Go do your daily chores or just screw around as you aimlessly run amok in the town! Peaceful vs. Violent decisions: Choose to be a wussy pacifist or wipe out everyone in your way. Hey, it's the apocalypse, so you'll probably fit in! New arsenal and items: Take out some unlucky punks with the Revolver! Enact wasteland justice with the Lever-Action Shotgun! Whack some weeds and perhaps other meatier subjects with the Weed Whacker! Dual-wielding: Double your fun with double the gun! Boss battles: Settle some scores once and for all mano a mano. Full controller support: Piss on strangers from the comfort of your couch! The Dude's original voice: No bogus imposters here!

GBP 0.19
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Heaven and Its Discontents Milton's Characters in Paradise Lost

Heaven and Its Discontents Milton's Characters in Paradise Lost

Many critics agree with C. S. Lewis that Satan is the best drawn of Milton's characters. Satan is certainly a wonderful creation but Adam and Eve are also complex and well-drawn and God may be the most complicated character of all. Paradise Lost is above all God's story; it is his discontent first with Lucifer and then with human beings that drives the action from the beginning until his anger subsides at the world's end. God and Satan have similarities not only in their pursuit of revenge but also in their craving for power and glory. The ambitious Satan wants more than he already has but what accounts for the voracity of God's appetite? Does the fact that each threatens the status of the other help to explain the intensity of their hatred and rage? Is their vindictiveness a response to being threatened an effort to repair the injury they feel they've sustained? This seems to be the case for Satan but must not God also have felt deeply hurt to have such a powerful need for vengeance? If so why is the Almighty so vulnerable? And why is he so hard on Adam and Eve and the rest of humankind? These are the kinds of questions Bernard Paris tries to answer in this book. Paris's purpose is not to focus on Milton's illustrative intentions but to try to understand God Satan Adam and Eve as psychologically motivated characters who are torn by inner conflicts. Most critics treat Milton's characters as coded messages from the author but their mimetic features interfere with the process of decoding. Instead of looking through the characters to the author Paris looks at Milton's characters as objects of interest in themselves as creations inside a creation who escape their thematic roles and are embodiments of his psychological intuitions. This book heightens our appreciation of an ignored aspect of Milton's art and offers new insights into the critical controversies that have surrounded Paradise Lost. | Heaven and Its Discontents Milton's Characters in Paradise Lost

GBP 42.99
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Postal 2: Paradise Lost Europe Steam CD Key

Postal 2: Paradise Lost Europe Steam CD Key

Paradise Lost is a full-fledged expansion pack for POSTAL 2 continuing the saga of the POSTAL series. Join the Dude as he ventures back into his former hometown embarking on a quest to find his lost dog. Not all is at it seems, as the once tranquil (relatively speaking) town and its citizens have been transformed in the wake of the nuclear destruction. Dare to enter the varied Zones as you cross the Arid Desert, trek through the dense Rainy Foliage, freeze your nuts off in the Nuclear Winter, and roam under the Ashen Skies. Meet the many mysterious factions comprised of the towering, the miniature, the zombified, and everything in between and use your radiant people skills to attempt to ally yourself with their enigmatic leaders, ranging from former child stars to terrifying demonic udder-wielding beasts! Fierce Lawmen, crazed Bandits, deranged Doomsday Survivalists, and a phallic child's toy mascot await. Do whatever it takes to survive! Wait in lines! Use vending machines! Buy toilet paper! Journey to where it all began to rescue your loyal companion! Prepare to delve into the post-apocalyptic world of Paradise Lost! FeaturesA complete singleplayer campaign: Brave Monday through Friday with twists and turns each day. Free roam, non-linear, errand-based gameplay: Go do your daily chores or just screw around as you aimlessly run amok in the town! Peaceful vs. Violent decisions: Choose to be a wussy pacifist or wipe out everyone in your way. Hey, it's the apocalypse, so you'll probably fit in! New arsenal and items: Take out some unlucky punks with the Revolver! Enact wasteland justice with the Lever-Action Shotgun! Whack some weeds and perhaps other meatier subjects with the Weed Whacker! Dual-wielding: Double your fun with double the gun! Boss battles: Settle some scores once and for all mano a mano. Full controller support: Piss on strangers from the comfort of your couch! The Dude's original voice: No bogus imposters here!

GBP 0.19
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