Between worlds : the rhetorical universe of Paradise lost

Between worlds : the rhetorical universe of Paradise lost /

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William Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical registers observed in each of the poem's major settings.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Pallister, Will, 1967- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2008
Subjects:	Milton, John, > 1608-1674. > Paradise lost. Milton, John, > 1608-1674 > Literary style. Electronic books. Literary criticism.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Contingency, probability, and free will
Milton's classical rhetoricians
Milton's forerunners : Renaissance rhetoric
Milton's concept of rhetoric
The voice of God : rhetoric and religion
The rhetoric of heaven
Satan and rhetoric
The rhetoric of hell
Temptation and the rhetoric of paradise
Descending from heaven : anthropopathia and the rhetoric of paradise.