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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781132903321

Autore

Pallister Will <1967->

Titolo

Between worlds : the rhetorical universe of Paradise Lost / / William Pallister

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9286-3

1-4426-8744-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

821/.4

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Critiques litteraires.

Literary criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contingency, probability, and free will -- Milton's classical rhetoricians -- Milton's forerunners : Renaissance rhetoric -- Milton's concept of rhetoric -- The voice of God : rhetoric and religion -- The rhetoric of heaven -- Satan and rhetoric -- The rhetoric of hell -- Temptation and the rhetoric of paradise -- Descending from heaven : anthropopathia and the rhetoric of paradise.

Sommario/riassunto

William Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical registers observed in each of the poem's major settings.