Between Worlds : : The Rhetorical Universe of Paradise Lost /

Between Worlds : : The Rhetorical Universe of Paradise Lost / / William Pallister.

John Milton's Paradise Lost has long been celebrated for its epic subject matter and the poet's rhetorical fireworks. In Between Worlds, William Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical register...

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Pallister, William,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2008
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on the Text
  • Introduction
  • 1. Contingency, Probability, and Free Will
  • 2. Milton's Classical Rhetoricians
  • 3. Milton's Forerunners: Renaissance Rhetoric
  • 4. Milton's Concept of Rhetoric
  • 5. The Voice of God: Rhetoric and Religion
  • 6. The Rhetoric of Heaven
  • 7. Satan and Rhetoric
  • 8. The Rhetoric of Hell
  • 9. Temptation and the Rhetoric of Paradise
  • 10. Descending from Heaven: Anthropopathia and the Rhetoric of Paradise
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary of Rhetorical Figures and Tropes
  • Index

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