Milton in popular culture / / edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers and Gregory M. Colón Semenza

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 260 p.)
• Disciplina: 821/.4
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture - History - 20th century
• Altri autori: KnoppersLaura Lunger SemenzaGregory M. Colón <1972->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Part I Milton in Fantasy Literature -- 1 Reconstructing Eden: Paradise Lost and C.S. Lewis's Perelandra -- 2 Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell: The Real Story -- 3 "Fighting Since Time Began": Milton and Satan in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials -- 4 His Dark Materials, Paradise Lost, and the Common Reader -- 5 Adapting Milton for Children: Margaret Hodges's Comus (1996) and the Tale of Childe Rowland -- Part II Milton in Horror Film -- 6 Popularizing Pandaemonium: Milton and the Horror Film -- 7 Miltonic Loneliness and Monstrous Desire from Paradise Lost to Bride of Frankenstein -- 8 " 'Better to Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven', Is That It?": Ethics, Apocalypticism, and Allusion in The Devil's Advocate -- Part III Milton in Comedic Film -- 9 "You Seemed to Go Way Back": The Evolution of Adam in The Lady Eve -- 10 Sabrina Fair Goes to the Movies: Milton, Myth, and Romance -- 11 Sabrina . . . Or, the Lady?: Gender, Class, and the Specter of Milton in Sabrina (1995) -- 12 National Lampoon's Animal House and the Fraternity of Milton -- Part IV Milton and Social Justice -- 13 Milton after 9/11 -- 14 The Blind Leading the Blind and Sighted: John Milton and Helen Keller -- 15 Malcolm X and African-American Literary Appropriations of Paradise Lost -- Part V Milton in Modern Technologies -- 16 The Environment, the Body, and the Digital Fallen Angel in Simon Biggs's Pandaemonium -- 17 Milton and the Web -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Breathing life into a Milton for the Twenty-first century, this cutting-edge collection shows students and scholars alike how Milton transforms and is transformed by popular literature and polemics, film and television, and other modern media.
• Titolo autorizzato: Milton in popular culture
• ISBN: 1-281-36980-2; 9786611369804; 1-4039-8318-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827277703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II