Milton and the ineffable
By: Noam Reisner.
Series: Oxford English monographs; Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780199572625
Subjects: Milton, John, -- 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ineffable, The, in literature; English poetry -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Silence and presence: ineffability in ancient and medieval Western thought; title: The power and illusion of words: renegotiating ineffable presence in the advent of humanism and reform; title: Milton's Poems 1645: the problem with soaring; title: Paradise Lost: pretending to say the unsayable; title: Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes: the ineffable self; title: Epilogue: Wittgenstein's verdict.