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Milton and the Reformation aesthetics of the passion [[electronic resource] /] / by Erin Henriksen



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Autore: Henriksen Erin Visualizza persona
Titolo: Milton and the Reformation aesthetics of the passion [[electronic resource] /] / by Erin Henriksen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden [Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
Disciplina: 821/.4
Soggetto topico: Christian poetry, English - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Devotional literature, English - History and criticism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Milton's poetics of absence and restoration -- Strategies for depicting the Son in Christian art -- Iconoclasm as an artistic strategy -- The post-Reformation passion -- Milton's alternative passion -- "No death!" : rewriting the Protestant elegy in Milton's early poems -- The art of omission and supplement in Paradise lost -- Paradise regained and the art of the incarnation -- Rewriting the Christus patiens tradition in Samson agonistes -- Epilogue: Broken and whole.
Sommario/riassunto: Scholarship on Milton's view of God the Father and the Son has focused on the author's theological beliefs. For Milton, these are equally artistic questions, and to address them this study considers the precedents in Christian art that provide models for portraying the divine within a reformed context. Milton's revision of the passion tradition in his short poems of 1645 and his later epic poems substitutes a living, obedient and subservient Son in place of late medieval representations of the crucifixion. His alternative passion unfolds through a poetic vocabulary of fragmentation, omission, and restoration, drawing on iconoclasm as an artistic strategy. This study addresses the long-standing question about Milton's avoidance of the crucifixion and contributes to the broader study of his reformed poetics.
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ISBN: 1-282-95142-4
9786612951428
90-04-18366-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785698703321
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Serie: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; ; v. 145.