Milton's rival hermeneutics reason is but choosing / [electronic resource] :
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- 出版： Pittsburgh, PA : Duquesne University Press
- 叢書名： Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
- 主題： Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation. , Hermeneutics
- ISBN： 9780820705811 (electronic bk.) 、 9780820704500 (hbk.)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 摘要註: "As these 11 essays demonstrate, Milton's own acts of interpretationin his major works compelreaders to reflect not only on the rival hermeneutics they find there, but also to reflect on theirown hermeneuticprinciples and choices -- an interpretive complexity that is integral to the enduring appeal of Milton's poetry"--
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Recent critical conversation has described John Milton’s major works as sites of uncertainty, irreconcilability, or even confusion—as texts that actually reflect radical incoherence and openness. These newer critical voices posit, moreover, that traditional critics must strain to find coherence and authorial control in Milton’s poetry. Richard DuRocher and Margaret Thickstun, together with an esteemed group of Milton scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical backgrounds, respond to this challenge. While accepting the presence of uncertainty and welcoming the multiple perspectives that Milton builds into his works, this volume offers a variety of nuanced approaches to Milton’s texts. As these eleven essays demonstrate, Milton’s own acts of interpretation compel readers to reflect not only on the rival hermeneutics they find within his works but also on their own hermeneutic principles and choices—an interpretive complexity that is integral to his poetry’s enduring appeal. Thus, each of the contributors takes up the problem of this interpretive dilemma in some way: several explore Milton’s own engagement with the texts of Scripture and the classics; some examine the ways in which Milton represents the process of interpretation in his narrative poems; and still others are intrigued by the challenges that Milton’s works present for the reader’s own interpretive skills. Milton’s Rival Hermeneutics, in responding directly to the “incertitude critics” of Milton, will be of interest to those on all sides of this debate and will certainly redirect the ongoing conversation.