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UNINA9910780691103321 |
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Wood Derek N. C. |
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Exiled from light : divine law, morality, and violence in Milton's Samson Agonistes / / Derek N.C. Wood |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 |
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1-282-03381-6 |
9786612033810 |
1-4426-7471-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Violence in literature |
Ethics in literature |
Bible and law |
Livres numeriques. |
e-books. |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Critics and Some Problems of Meaning -- 2 Intertextuality, Indirection, and Indeterminacy -- 3 Fictional Consciousness and the Author's Voice -- 4 Tragedy: Theory, Form, and Meaning -- 5 Exiled from Light: Sin, Regeneration, the Hero of Faith -- 6 Samson and Dalila: Love and Marriage -- 7 Samson: Divine Impulsion in the Hero of Faith, Charity, and the Imitation of Christ -- 8 The Structure of Samson Agonistes -- 9 Milton and Politics in Old Age -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- List of Works Consulted -- Index of Biblical Citations -- Index of Citations from the Works of John Milton -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W. |
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Despite considerable general disagreement about the meaning of Milton's Samson Agonistes, literary critics have largely come to view, |
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Samson, as a saintly Christian hero, with attending themes of election, conversion and regeneration. In a challenge to this dominant interpretation, Derek Wood proposes that Milton's protagonist is actually an emblematic embodiment of Old Testament consciousness as a rigorous, incomplete, literalistic and uncomprehending, fashioned by the old Mosaic Law, without the amelioration of Christ's charity and forgiveness. Wood begins by surveying and evaluating the critical literature on Samson Agonistes of the past fifty years, then challenges these readings through a comprehensive textual and formal analysis. He argues for a thorough understanding of Artistotle's theory of tragedy, in which Milton's practice was anchored and draws cogently on early modern European commentaries as well as contemporary re-evaluations of Aristotle's Poetics to clarify Milton's approach. Wood's contribution reconciles the orthodox interpretation of Samson as a Christian saint with the revisionist emphasis on his murderous brutality. The author's analysis corrects a number of errors made by previous Milton scholars, shows how Dalila has been consistently misread and decodes the politics of the tragedy in the context of Milton's final years as an aging, failed revolutionary. |
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UNISA996309062003316 |
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Autore |
Vennemann Theo |
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Germania Semitica / / Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld ; edited by Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna |
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Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2012 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (xxi, 742 pages ) |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies in monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 259 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Noel Aziz HannaPatrizia <1972-> |
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German philology |
Semitic languages - Europe - History |
Europe Languages History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Methodology of research in prehistoric language contact -- 1. Zur Entstehung des Germanischen -- 2. English as a "Celtic" language: Atlantic influences from above and from below -- 3. Amsel und Merula -- 4. Germania Semitica: +abr- 'strong', with a reflection on AbrahamlTheodoric -- 5. Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English -- 6. Germania Semitica: +aÞal- (OE æðel-, G Adel) 'nobility', With an appendix on Gk. ''Ατλαδ -- 7. Germania Semitica: Pre-Gmc. +-at- in E maiden, G Magd/Mädchen, Goth. magaps -- 8. Key issues in English etymology -- 9. Germania Semitica: Gmc. +drag-, +trek- (Lat. trah-, Gk. τρέχ-) -- 10. On the rise of 'Celtic' syntax in Middle English -- 11. Semitic Celtic English: The transitivity of language contact -- 12. Zur Etymologie von Rauch und riechen -- 13. PGmc. +drepa-, G treffen 'to hit' -- 14. Germania Semitica: +sibjō -- 15. Languages in prehistoric Europe north of the Alps -- 16. Syntax und Sprachkontakt: Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der indogermanischen Sprachen des Nordwestens -- 17. Note on the etymology of PGmc. +smītan and +smiþaz (E smite, smith, G schmeißen, Schmied, etc.) -- 18. Sprachgeburt durch Sprachkontakt: Die Entstehung des Englischen -- 19. Phol, Balder, and the birth of Germanic -- 20. Glauben wir noch an die Lautgesetze? Zur Etymologie von Phol und Balder im Zweiten Merseburger Zauberspruch -- 21. The name of the Isle of Thanet -- |
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22. Was Proto-Germanic a creole language? -- 23. Münze, mint, and money: An etymology for Latin Moneta -- 24. Ne'er-a-face: A note on the etymology of penny, with an appendix on the etymology of pane -- 25. A note on the etymology of Germanic +skellingaz 'shilling': With an appendix on Latin siliqua 'a small coin -- 26. Grimm's Law and loan-words -- 27. Germanische Runen und phönizisches Alphabet -- 28. Zur Reihung der Runen im älteren Fuþark -- 29. Semitic influence in Celtic? Yes and No -- 30. The source of the lng rune and of the futhark -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index of Atlantic / Hamito-Semitic etymologies -- Index of Hamito-Semitic words, word forms, and roots -- Index of Vasconic etymologies -- Index of Toponyms -- Subject Index |
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Germania Semitica explores prehistoric language contact in general, and attempts to identify the languages involved in shaping Germanic in particular. The book deals with a topic outside the scope of other disciplines concerned with prehistory, such as archaeology and genetics, drawing its conclusions from the linguistic evidence alone, relying on language typology and areal probability. The data for reconstruction comes from Germanic syntax, phonology, etymology, religious loan names, and the writing system, more precisely from word order, syntactic constructions, word formation, irregularities in phonological form, lexical peculiarities, and the structure and rules of the Germanic runic alphabet. It is demonstrated that common descent is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for reconstruction. Instead, lexical and structural parallels between Germanic and Semitic languages are explored and interpreted in the framework of modern language contact theory. |
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