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Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and Poetics

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Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and Poetics - Schwartz, Regina M
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In this graceful and compelling book, Regina Schwartz presents a powerful reading of Paradise Lost by tracing the structure of the poem to the pattern of "repeated beginnings" found in the Bible. In both works, the world order is constantly threatened by chaos. By drawing on both the Bible and the more contemporary works of, among others, Freud, Lacan, Ricoeur, Said, and Derrida, Schwartz argues that chaos does not simply threaten order, but rather, chaos inheres in order. "A brilliant study that quietly but powerfully ...

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Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and Poetics 1993, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226742014

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