17th Century; Renaissance
Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found: The New Milton Criticism
By , San Diego State University (December 2005)
Sections: 17th Century, Renaissance
Subject: Literature.
People: Milton, John.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1500-1599, 1600-1699.
Key Topics: audience, poetry, literary criticism , theater, texts.
Abstract
This article describes the current state of Milton studies. In the first part, I outline the dominant paradigm – i.e., that Milton is a poet of certainty and orthodoxy – showing how this paradigm arose and how it continues to shape a great deal of Milton scholarship. In the second part, I outline how a New Milton Criticism is starting to take shape, one which embraces indeterminacy and incertitude.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00176.x
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