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... tradition does have some point to it . 145 But in itself it merely registers the fact of the existence of a tradition . To explain why that tradition emerged and , more importantly for our purposes , why Milton chose to make use of it ...
... tradition does have some point to it . 145 But in itself it merely registers the fact of the existence of a tradition . To explain why that tradition emerged and , more importantly for our purposes , why Milton chose to make use of it ...
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... traditions — the English poetic tradition and the tradition of the English novel . Such a conceptual apparatus allows room neither for radical discontinuity nor for the notion that social class is a crucial mediating agency between the ...
... traditions — the English poetic tradition and the tradition of the English novel . Such a conceptual apparatus allows room neither for radical discontinuity nor for the notion that social class is a crucial mediating agency between the ...
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... ( tradition / genre ) chosen , and why was it distorted in a particular way ? To return to the example of Milton's epic poetry : why did Milton choose the epic tradition , rather than , say , the tradition of Elizabethan drama , and why ...
... ( tradition / genre ) chosen , and why was it distorted in a particular way ? To return to the example of Milton's epic poetry : why did Milton choose the epic tradition , rather than , say , the tradition of Elizabethan drama , and why ...
Contents
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Reason Triumphant | 94 |
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