Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise LostWhile Milton's inability to discover a privileged origin allies him with postmodernism - and so this study, originally published in 1988, engages thinkers like Freud, Nietzsche, Derrida, and Lacan - that insight is far more ancient. According to Regina Schwartz, the Bible offers Milton his pattern of repeated beginnings. |
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Contents
And the sea was no more Chaos vs creation | 8 |
The unclean realm | 11 |
Cosmogonic conflict | 24 |
Chaos and the fall | 31 |
Secret gaze or open admiration The invitation to origins | 40 |
Curiosity and knowledge | 41 |
Things visible to mortal sight | 53 |
Remember and tell over Creation in sacred song | 60 |
Cosmic liturgy | 77 |
Paradise Lost as hymn | 83 |
Yet once more Recreation repetition and return | 91 |
The Satanic will | 94 |
Adamic return | 103 |
Notes | 111 |
| 129 | |
| 137 | |
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Page 2 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
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| Title | Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost |
| Authors | Regina M. Schwartz, Schwartz Regina M. |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0521343577, 9780521343572 |
| Length | 144 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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