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ISBN: 0691113394 0691099960 9786612157691 1282157698 1400825237 9781400825233 9780691113395 9780691099965 9781282157699 6612157690 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press
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The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was "of the Devils party" even though he set out "to justify the ways of God to men." In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics--from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects. Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of Paradise Lost in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own.
Christian poetry, English --- Devil in literature. --- Epic poetry, English --- Evil in literature. --- Fall of man in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 820 "16" MILTON, JOHN --- -Evil in literature --- -English Christian poetry --- English epic poetry --- Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN --- -Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN --- 820 "16" MILTON, JOHN Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN --- -820 "16" MILTON, JOHN Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN --- Devil. --- Evil in literature --- Good in literature --- Milton, John, --- Rubinstein, Anton, --- Characters --- Devil in literature --- Fall of man in literature --- History and criticism --- Milton, John --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Good and evil in literature.
ISSN: 18615996 ISBN: 3110189380 9783110189384 3110919370 9783110919370 Year: 2006 Volume: 98 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter,
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A study of the theology of John Milton (1608-74) which explores his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) against the background of post-Reformation controversies regarding predestination, creation, free will, sin, and grace.
Free will and determinism in literature --- Free will and determinism --- Liberty in literature --- Liberty --- Theology, Doctrinal, in literature --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History --- Milton, John, --- Religion --- Free will and determinism in literature. --- Liberty in literature. --- Theology, Doctrinal, in literature. --- 820 "16" MILTON, JOHN --- Freedom (Theology) --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- Christianity. --- Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN --- Milton, John --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Religion. --- 820 "16" MILTON, JOHN Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN --- Rubinstein, Anton, --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Free will and determinism - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Liberty - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Theology, Doctrinal - History - 17th century --- Milton, John, - 1608-1674 - Paradise lost --- Milton, John, - 1608-1674 - Religion --- Freedom (term). --- Milton, John. --- systematic theology. --- Milton, John, - 1608-1674
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