Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain : : Reading, translating and staging Milton in Communist Hungary /

Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain : : Reading, translating and staging Milton in Communist Hungary / / Miklós Péti.

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Paradise from behind the Iron Curtain provides a detailed survey of the key responses to Milton's work in Hungarian state socialism. The four decades between 1948 and 1989 saw a radical revision of previous critical and artistic positions and resulted in the emergence of some characteristically...

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Péti, Miklós,
Place / Publishing House:London, United Kingdom : : UCL Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 286 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • A note on texts
  • Introduction
  • 1 Forms of attention and neglect: Milton's epics in print and on stage and in oblivion
  • 2 Samson: An unlikely hero of socialism
  • 3 A tale of two scholars: Milton's prose in communist Hungary
  • 4 'I rebel quietly': Revolution and gender in Hungarian translations of Milton's shorter poems
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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