Milton and Homer : "written to aftertimes" / Gregory Machacek.
Machacek, Gregory.
2011
PR3562 .M23 2011 (Mapit)
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Milton and Homer : "written to aftertimes" / Gregory Machacek.
Author
Machacek, Gregory.
ISBN
9780820704470 alkaline paper
0820704474 alkaline paper
Publication Details
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
ix, 194 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR3562 .M23 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.4
Summary
"Explores the various ways in which Homer's epic poems influenced Milton in his own ambition to compose an enduring, canonical work of literature. Machacek's study of this major interpoetic relationship is methodologically responsive to the historicist critical enterprise dominant within literary study for the past three decades"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
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"By allusion called" : diachronic and synchronic intertextuality
"Dire example" : the war in Heaven as admonitory exemplum
"A fabric wonderful" : the marvelous and verisimilar in Milton's Christian epic
"From the first" : conceptions of origins and their consequences
"Above th'Aonian mount" : the Longinian sublime in Paradise lost
"Instruct me" : institutional considerations in Milton's evolving literary ambitions.

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