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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... person can detect the slightest deviation in usage: then equivocality is more apparent than real, a function of certitude, not its opposite. 18 Irony becomes witty antithesis—a superior conversance with what is taken for truth, which in ...
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