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This new reading of Paradise Lost concentrates on the analysis of linguistic concepts underlying Milton's epic, and then builds on those concepts with a fresh interpretation that considers the role that Raphael plays in it. Relying on a narrative model that was already well-known in the seventeenth century and was baptized godgame by the twentieth century British novelist John Fowles, it reinterprets the role of the archangel as that of a tool in the great plan of Milton's Father's "ironic" teaching. This book complements a basically linguistic approach to Milton's poetry and prose with concepts such as that of retraction adopted from "heretical" Milton critics as Saurat, Hill, and Empson.
Contents
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction
Part 3 Theories of Language in the Seventeenth Century: From Essentalism to Nominalism, from the bible to the Royal Society (and Beyond)
Part 4 The Question of Language in Milton's Works
Part 5 Conclusion



