Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Published by Princeton University Press 1985

Paradise Lost and the Rhetoric of Literary Forms

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Volume 186 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400853953

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This comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem.

Originally published in 1985.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Chapter 1. Paradise Lost As Encyclopedic Epic: The Uses Of Literary Forms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Inspiration and Literary Art: The Prophet-Poets of Paradise Lost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3. "Argument Heroic Deem'd": The Genres of the Satanic Heroic Mode Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 4. "Semblance of Worth, not Substance": The Discursive and Lyric Genres of the Damned Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 5. "Other Excellence": Generic Multiplicity and Milton's Literary God Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Chapter 6. "Our Happy State": Literary Forms for Angelic Wholeness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter 7. "A Happy Rural Seat of Various View": Pastoral Idyl and the Genres of Edenic Innocence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Chapter 8. "Our Pleasant Labor": Georgic and Comedic Modes and Genres in Eden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Chapter 9. "I Now Must Change Those Notes to Tragic": The Fall and the Tragic Genres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Chapter 10. "Not Less but More Heroic": Prophecy and the Transformation of Literary Forms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

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