Preface: Miltonic Poetics

IF 0.1 2区文学 0 POETRY

Milton Studies Pub Date : 2018-04-17 DOI:10.1353/MLT.2018.0000

L. L. Knoppers

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Abstract

When Milton’s Death, poised at the gates of hell, upturns his nostril to snuff the smell of mortal change on earth, we find a strikingly compressed nexus of theology, ontology, cosmology, and intertextuality in Paradise Lost. The primordial snuff is Death’s response to his mother, Sin, who, with Satan’s success in tempting Adam and Eve, feels “new strength within me rise, / Wings growing, and dominion given me large / Beyond this deep” (10.243–45) and urges Death to go with her to earth, “For Death from Sin no power can separate” (10.251).1 Death, a perpetually ravenous “meagre shadow” (10.264), needs no further encouragement, avowing:

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前言:弥尔顿诗学

当米尔顿之死，在地狱之门前，仰起鼻孔，嗅到地球上致命变化的气息时，我们在《失乐园》中发现了神学、本体论、宇宙学和互文性的惊人压缩关系。最原始的鼻烟是死亡对他的母亲辛的回应，随着撒旦成功地诱惑了亚当和夏娃，她感到“我内心的新力量崛起了，翅膀长了，统治赋予了我巨大的力量/超越了这个深度”（10.243-45），并敦促死亡与她一起去地球，“因为死亡与罪没有任何力量可以分开”（10.251）。1死亡，一个永远贪婪的“微弱的阴影”（10.264），无需进一步鼓励，宣称：

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Milton Studies POETRY-

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0.40

自引率

50.00%

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期刊介绍： Milton Studies is published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press as a forum for Milton scholarship and criticism.