DOING GOD'S WILL: MOTIVES INTENTIONS AND THE CHARECTERS OF PARADISE LOST
This is general agrrement among critics of Paradise Lost that the dramatic interest of the characters varies with the positions they occupy in the poem's human and Super hirerrchies. The essay accepts this view of Paradise Lost, and examines how aspects of the grammer of their speeches tells us...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1998
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Literature and theology
Year: 1998, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 363-378 |
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| Summary: | This is general agrrement among critics of Paradise Lost that the dramatic interest of the characters varies with the positions they occupy in the poem's human and Super hirerrchies. The essay accepts this view of Paradise Lost, and examines how aspects of the grammer of their speeches tells us interesting things about the relation between the characters' dramatic and theological status. This in turn has a pronounced effect on reader-character relations. In particular, it goes some way towards explaining why God's articulation of his power and presence affects the reader less positively than Satan's or Eve's does of theirs This happens in spite of the reader's acknowledgement of God's superior status in the theological economy of the poem. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/12.4.363 |