Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's IronyWhy do we hate Milton's God? Victoria Silver reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense. |
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... action, he is distinguishing this dimensionality that attends any populated, diversified account of our experience: it is the genius of drama as an expressive mode to imagine and depict the human predicament much like we undergo it ...
... action becomes the object of reflection and debate while still not being regarded as sufficiently autonomous to be fully self-sufficient. The particular domain of tragedy lies in this border zone where human actions hinge on divine ...
... action in such a way as intimately to grasp the appeal—the seemingly indubitable rightness, justice, beauty—of those choices. Thus the tragic action simultaneously immerses us in and protects us from the misunderstanding in which we ...
... action places us but in the relationship between the two, as a proper account of human being. To that extent, right understanding in tragedy has an affinity with Wittgenstein's much-maligned statement in the Investigations that ...
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