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  1. Carnal rhetoric
    Milton's iconoclasm and the poetics of desire
    Author: Cable, Lana
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton's poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism. In Carnal Rhetoric, Lana Cable carries these... more

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    In recent years, New Historicists have situated the iconoclasm of Milton's poetry and prose within the context of political, cultural, and philosophical discourses that foreshadow early modernism. In Carnal Rhetoric, Lana Cable carries these investigations further by exploring the iconoclastic impulse in Milton's works through detailed analyses of his use of metaphor. Building on a provocative iconoclastic theory of metaphor, she breaks new ground in the area of affective stylistics, not only as it pertains to the writings of Milton but also to all expressive language.Cable tra

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0822315602; 1283062747; 0822382407; 0822315734; 9781283062749; 9780822315605; 9780822382409; 9780822315735
    Subjects: Desire in literature; Metaphor; Poetics; English language; Modernism (Literature); Iconoclasm in literature
    Other subjects: Milton, John (1608-1674)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (x, 231 p), ill, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-223) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Metaphor and "Meaning": Toward a Theory of Creative Iconoclasm; 2 "Shuffling up such a God": The Rhetorical Agon of Milton's Antiprelatical Tracts; 3 "Was she thy God?": The Coupling Rhetoric of the Divorce Tracts; 4 "The image of God in the eye": Areopagitica's Truth; 5 "Unimprisonable utterance": Imagination and the Attack on Eikon Basilike; 6 Samson's Transformative Desire; Notes; Index