| Description |
1 online resource (214 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in the history of Christian traditions,
1573-5664 ;
v. 145
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Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 145.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Milton's poetics of absence and restoration -- Strategies for depicting the Son in Christian art -- Iconoclasm as an artistic strategy -- The post-Reformation passion -- Milton's alternative passion -- "No death!" : rewriting the Protestant elegy in Milton's early poems -- The art of omission and supplement in Paradise lost -- Paradise regained and the art of the incarnation -- Rewriting the Christus patiens tradition in Samson agonistes -- Epilogue: Broken and whole. |
| Summary |
This book addresses the problem of Milton's poetics of the passion, a tradition he revises by turning away from late medieval representations of the crucifixion and drawing instead on earlier Christian images and alternative strategies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Milton, John. |
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Jesus Christus -- Passion. |
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Devotional literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Devotional literature, English. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Henriksen, Erin. Milton and the Reformation aesthetics of the passion. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004180321 (DLC) 2009039903 (OCoLC)444113833 |
| ISBN |
9789004183667 (electronic book) |
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9004183663 (electronic book) |
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9789004180321 |
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900418032X |
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