Milton's Rival Hermeneutics : : “Reason is But Choosing” / / ed. by Margaret Olofson Thickstun, Richard J. DuRocher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: DuRocher, Richard J.,; Feroli, Teresa,; Flesch, William,; Jenkins, Hugh,; Lewalski, Barbara K.,; McColley, Diane,; Revard, Stella P.,; Teskey, Gordon,; Thickstun, Margaret Olofson,; Wittreich, Joseph,; Woods, Susanne,
• HerausgeberIn: DuRocher, Richard J.,; Thickstun, Margaret Olofson,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 p.)

Recent critical conversation has described John Milton’s major works as sites of uncertainty, irreconcilability, or even confusion—as texts that actually reflect radical incoherence and openness. These newer critical voices posit, moreover, that traditional critics must strain to find coherence and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• A Tribute to Richard J. DuRocher, 1955–2010
• Introduction
• Part One: Reading Violence
• 1. Inviting Rival Hermeneutics
• 2. “A Table Richly Spread”
• 3. Dead Shepherd
• 4. Toward Latinitas
• Part Two: Reading Paradise Lost
• 5. Interpreting God’s Word — and Words — in Paradise Lost
• Sites of Contention in Paradise Lost
• 7. Narrative, Judgment, and Justice in Paradise Lost
• Part Three: Reading Cruxes in Milton’s Major Poems
• 8. Rethinking “shee for God in him”
• 9. Fame, Shame, and the Importance of Community in Samson Agonistes
• 10. Satan in Paradise Regained
• 11. Hermes’s Blessed Retreat
• Notes
• About the Contributors
• Index