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1 online resource (x, 231 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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1 Metaphor and "Meaning": Toward a Theory of Creative Iconoclasm -- 2 "Shuffling up such a God": The Rhetorical Agon of Milton's Antiprelatical Tracts -- 3 "Was she thy God?": The Coupling Rhetoric of the Divorce Tracts -- 4 "The image of God in the eye": Areopagitica's Truth -- 5 "Unimprisonable utterance": Imagination and the Attack on Eikon Basilike -- 6 Samson's Transformative Desire |
| Summary |
In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton's poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism. In Carnal Rhetoric, Lana Cable carries these investigations further by exploring the iconoclastic impulse in Milton's works through detailed analyses of his use of metaphor. Building on a provocative iconoclastic theory of metaphor, she breaks new ground in the area of affective stylistics, not only as it pertains to the writings of Milton but also to all expressive language. Cable tra |
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English poetry |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Technique
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
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Milton, John. swd |
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English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhetoric
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Poetics -- History -- 17th century
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Modernism (Literature) -- England
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Iconoclasm in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Metaphor.
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Modernism (Literature) -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Rhetoric.
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Metaphor
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metaphor.
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rhetoric (discipline)
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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POETRY -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Rhetoric
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Desire in literature
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English language -- Early modern -- Rhetoric
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Iconoclasm in literature
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Metaphor
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Poetics
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Modernism (Literature)
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Lyrik
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Technique
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Letterkunde.
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Wensen.
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Metaforen.
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England
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822382409 |
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0822382407 |
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