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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... position alone, but the whole refractory problem of injustice that occupied him as long as he lived. From disparate beginnings, injustice engenders in every one of them a certain morality of knowledge at odds with what passes for truth ...
... position to which we are perhaps less alive nowadays: This art [of epic poetry] addresses itself chiefly to the imagination, a faculty which apprehends nothing in the way of character that is not human, and according to the analogy of ...
... position, even where as critics we may refrain from casting the allegory in those precise terms. But as literally an alternate or “other” sort of meaning from the usual sense we give words, allegory can neatly accommodate the apparent ...
... positions—sceptical or rhapsodic— in which the 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 ... position, by which Wittgenstein.
... position, by which Wittgenstein tends to mean integral to our condition as human beings. He sees the practice of meaning as fundamental to humanity in just this way, but also peculiarly indicative of its character—an aspect of our ...