Research Catalog

Title

Milton and Homer : "written to aftertimes" / Gregory Machacek.

Author

Machacek, Gregory.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2011.

Supplementary Content

Table of contents

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

ix, 194 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Explores the various ways in which Homer's epic poems influenced Milton in his own ambition to compose an enduring, canonical work of literature. Machacek's study of this major interpoetic relationship is methodologically responsive to the historicist critical enterprise dominant within literary study for the past three decades"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

Uniform Title

Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.

Subject

• Milton, John, 1608-1674
• Milton, John, 1608-1674 > Sources
• Homer > Influence
• English poetry > Greek influences
• Intertextuality

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"By allusion called" : diachronic and synchronic intertextuality -- "Dire example" : the war in Heaven as admonitory exemplum -- "A fabric wonderful" : the marvelous and verisimilar in Milton's Christian epic -- "From the first" : conceptions of origins and their consequences -- "Above th'Aonian mount" : the Longinian sublime in Paradise lost -- "Instruct me" : institutional considerations in Milton's evolving literary ambitions.

Call Number

JFE 12-2200

ISBN

• 9780820704470 (hc.)
• 0820704474 (hc.)

LCCN

2011028585

OCLC

754770718

Author

Machacek, Gregory.

Title

Milton and Homer : "written to aftertimes" / Gregory Machacek.

Imprint

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2011.

Series

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents

Research Call Number

JFE 12-2200