| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
"written to aftertimes" |
| Author: |
MachacekGregory, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Published: |
Duquesne University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (204 p.). |
| Series: |
Medieval & Renaissance literary studies |
| Subject: |
Intertextuality - |
| Subject: |
English poetry - Greek influences - |
| Personal Subject: |
Homer - Influence - |
| Personal Subject: |
Milton - John - Sources - |
| Personal Subject: |
Milton - John - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820705774/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 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 dominantwithin literary study for the past three decades"--Provided by publisher |
| ISBN: |
9780820705774electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780820704470hbk. |
| Content Note: |
"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'sChristian 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 |