Brian Russell Graham

Speech Acts in Blake's Milton

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Produktbeschreibung

Using a framework based on J. L. Austinâ s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammerâ s work on how things are done with words in Miltonâ s and Blakeâ s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in Blakeâ s epic poem Milton.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Focus on Literature
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781032379180
• ISBN-10: 1032379189
• Artikelnr.: 65613502

Autorenporträt

Brian Russell Graham is a two-time graduate of the University of Glasgow, where he completed an M.A. (Hons.) and PhD in English Literature. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School. His first monograph, The Necessary Unity of Opposites, published in 2011, is a study of Northrop Frye, particularly Frye's dialectical thinking. His second monograph, On a Common Culture, was published in 2022.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Bard's Song I: From the Beginning Until The Creation of
Fallen Space
Chapter 2: The Bard's Song II: The Creation of Fallen Time and Death, and
Milton's Response to the Song
Chapter 3: 'the forward path / Of Milton's journey' and the Opponents of
His Progress
Chapter 4: Opposition to Milton in Golgonooza and Los's Defence of the
'Shadow Terrible'
Chapter 5: The Descent of Ololon
Chapter 6: The Redemption of the Contraries
Chapter 7: Coda: Milton as Speech Act
Bibliography
Index