Paradise Lost A Biography
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.06.2025
Verlag
Princeton University PressSeitenzahl
224
Maße (L/B/H)
20.5/13.2/2.7 cm
Gewicht
376 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-691-23857-9
"John Milton's Paradise Lost can make a strong claim to being, not just the greatest single poem in the English language, but also the most important work of political theology ever written. In addition to the many other things it does, it has held up a mirror in which readers--and, later, listeners and viewers--have discerned their own complex and variable attitudes toward power and authority, rebellion and justice, sin and salvation. In so doing, it has provided an intricate framework for thinking about the ways human ambition can assume the character of heroism, or rebellion, or tyranny--perhaps all three at once. In this book Alan Jacob discusses some of the highlights of this poem's enduring influence in the three-and-a-half centuries since its first appearance, including Mary Shelly's Frankenstein to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy"--
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