Between Two Pillars

The Hero's Plight in Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained

von Joseph G. Mayer

276 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

John Milton's "Samson" is a figure at once Godly and unGodly. Some recent criticism of Samson Agonistes, with its notion of "shifting contexts," treats the play as a repository of conflicting traditions. Between Two Pillars, instead of denying the play's aesthetic integrity, discerns in it a dialectical opposition between Samson's irrevocable election by God and his subjection-instanced by his slavery-to a fallen, unGodly order.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9780761829720
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2004
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: University Press of America