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Tournu, Christophe. "Théologie & [et] politique dans l'oeuvre en prose de John Milton." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996CLF20100.
Full textThis study purports to analyse the interactions between j. Milton's discourse on god and his view of man's organized society in the works "of (his) left hand", where he applied himself to the various fields of liberty. Examining private life, the polemicist must devise his own hermeneutics to justify divorce in case of mutual incompatibility; "the rule of charity" was to account for his politics of marriage. What is essentially a christology leads to a radical upgrading of fallible man. When he deals with the problem of education, he insists on the perfectibility of man through learning. If j. Milton's accademy forms man to a knowledge of god, its program prepares an elite to leadership. Theology, without politics, appears to be an empty husk. Then the pamphleteer pleads for the abolition of pre-publication censorship: he strives to support a political project by his theology, although the former will further ask for liberty of conscience. Emphasizing the responsibility of man, j. Milton rejects calvins and come close to arminianism. In discussing the ecclesiastical cause he asserts the dignity of believers and positions himself for a segregation of the two spheres. Divesting the church of politics, he would invest the institution with a supra theological dimension. That politics, without theology, would be unfounded is the conclusion of his vision of power. Confuting the jure divino of kings to put forward the imprescriptible rights of the people to self-government, he legitimizes tyrannicide with philosophical and historical arguments, before advocating an aristocratic republic. Thus theology and politics would completely agree : the minority of good men or of rulers corresponds to the handful of god's elect. Yet the two poles cannot obey one logic, for man sees not as god sees, but they follow the same pattern of evolution. Just as politics is eventually t o disappear because man should master himself by interiorizing the law, theology will no longer be a prototype for all present collective situations: the ways of god to man aim at a renewing of the individual(s) and are to be found in the unwritten scripture - the word
Voss, Annemarie. "John Milton's Paradise lost in Germany : reception and German-language criticism." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/762991.
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Wilson, Emma Annette. "John Milton's use of logic in 'Paradise Lost'." Thesis, St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/850.
Full textHannon, Elizabeth. "The influence of Paradise Lost on the hymns of Charles Wesley." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25417.
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Padgett, Jeffrey Lynn. "The monistic continuity of the Miltonic heresy." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/514853.
Full textKoo, Youngwhoe. "Idea of Natural Law in Milton's Comus and Paradise Lost." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277958/.
Full textOberson, Frédéric. "Image, symbole et signe dans les pamphlets anti-royalistes de John Milton." Paris 10, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA100114.
Full textIn his republican pamphlets, John Milton fights against three main enemies, i. E. The late king Charles I and two French monarchists, Claude Saumaise and Alexander More. Against them, he builds up a lot of satirical images, involving animals, sexual behaviours, the medicine and the theatre. He is influenced by William Shakespeare. A lot of bodily images and symbols are derived from contemporary medical thought. Milton's main purpose in his republican pamphlets is to expose in public view the illusions which enslave men and to fight political propaganda. He presents himself like a hero, a bard, a prophet and a soldier, with a mission. In doing so, lie compares himself with a lot of mythological figures, from Orpheus and Osiris, to Samson and Hercules
Ghermani, Laïla. "Le visible et l'invisible dans Paradise Lost de John Milton (1608-1674) : genèse et essor d'une poétique hérétique." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030133.
Full textHow can Milton’s poet claim that he intends to «see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal eyes » (III, 54-55) or that he is going to disclose the « invisible exploits » (V, 565) of the angels in the epic? The aim of this study is to show that Milton’s project to make invisible things visible, is profoundly original in both aesthetic and theological terms. His argument is rooted in a theology of his own which he acknowledges to be heretical. By rejecting the Calvinist idea of predestination, preferring instead the doctrine of Arminius, Milton forges a poetic persona who is granted a specific and superior illumination. Moreover, Milton refutes the dogma of the Trinity, and conceives the Son as the first created image of the invisible Father. Such a conception of the Son provides him with a model for his poetics of the invisible. Finally, Milton's poetics is based on a definition of scriptural accommodation which is in opposition to the Augustinian definition usually adopted by the Protestants. To give coherence to his project Milton elaborates an epic poetics which is centred on the figures of the poet and the Son and whose final aim is the representation of the invisible. To make the invisible glory of God visible, he introduces a hierarchy of images and words concerning the manifestations of light which parallels the hierarchy of living things in the universe. The second aspect of Milton’s visual aesthetics concerns a fragmenting of unified sight and its subsequent reconstruction by the omniscient narrator
St-Jacques, François. "Étude comparative de trois traductions de Paradise Lost de l'anglais au français : définition d'une méthodologie quantitative de l'équivalence en traduction littéraire." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/27977/27977.pdf.
Full textMidan, Marc. "Milton & Melville : le démon de l'allusion." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070086.
Full textMilton & Melville: The Demon of Allusion studies the significance of allusions to Milton in Typee, Moby¬Dick, The Confidence-Man and Billy-Budd, Sailor. Examining the state of research shows that allusion tends to be seen as a way to identify the meaning of an ambiguous Melvillean text with a supposedly stable Miltonic one – when in fact the allusive relationship is dynamic and reciprocal. All at once playful, satirical, impious, and erotic, Melvillean allusion is protean and thus eludes generalization. However, its very elusiveness hints at a more global significance, going beyond merely local import. Far from being just a flourish or a supplement, it is the very stuff that the text is made of. However oblique and disconcerting, it plays a crucial part in Melville's ambition to master the "great Art of Telling the Truth". Indeed, it is through allusion—in particular to Paradise Lost—that he satirizes contemporary society, explores the alienation of the self and expresses the terror of the "invisible spheres". Melville's text can be conceived of as the locus where truth is both achieved and exhibited to the reader, through a chemistry that is experimental as well as pictorial in nature. Based on a uniquely American federal model, such a process involves a complex allusive mix, the meaning of which lies not only in what the different texts bring to their host, "'but also in the destructive interaction between them. This recurrent allusive agon – the "colorless all-color" of writing – speaks to the violence of Melvillean relationships, the most powerful symbol of which is Milton's Satan
Liebert, Elisabeth Mary, and n/a. "Speaking selves : dialogue and identity in Milton�s major poems." University of Otago. Department of English, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20061106.160106.
Full textLearmonth, Nicola K., and n/a. "Definitions of obedience in Paradise regained." University of Otago. Department of English, 2007. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20071108.162331.
Full textWallbanks, Mark. "The vicissitudes of the authentic self: a literary mapping of the authentic self from John Milton's Paradise lost to Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama /Mark Wallbanks." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/364.
Full textHamel, Christopher. "Le Républicanisme des droits : vertu civique et droits naturels dans la pensée de John Milton et Algernon Sidney." Paris 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA010524.
Full textPoulin, René. ""Advise him of his happy state" : a study of Raphael's instruction of man in Milton's Eden." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63386.
Full textCaland, Fabienne Claire. "Seuils, passages, parole : Les lieux initiatiques dans "The lord of the rings" (Tolkien), "Paradise lost" (Milton) et "Inferno" (Dante)." Limoges, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LIMOA015.
Full textWhite, Michael 1971. "The relationship between the grotesque and revolutionary thought in Milton's Paradise lost and Shelley's Prometheus unbound /." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20187.
Full textAside from general considerations of the grotesque in these texts, I will especially focus on how Milton's and Shelley's uses of the grotesque mode provide us with unique, and often fascinating vantage points from which to appreciate their respective political concerns and revolutionary interests. While I expect this critical approach will elucidate Milton and Shelley in their own separate artistic and political spheres, I am especially interested to compare and contrast the poets, to show how the quite different uses made of the grotesque in Prometheus Unbound and Paradise Lost reflect the various ways in which Shelley responds to Milton in his role as a revolutionary forefather.
Frey, Christopher Lorne. "Body marks in early modern English epic : Spenser's Faerie Queene and Milton's Paradise Lost." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97835.
Full textUne épopée fut culturellement considérée comme un vaste genre: The FaerieQueene, et Paradise Lost, de Spenser et Milton, sont pertinents pour l'étude desreprésentations littéraires des marques corporelles durant la Renaissance, et du corps.Basées sur les principes de la poésie de l'époque, comme l'enseignement délicieux, utpictura poesis, et la catharsis, les explications graphiques de blessures et autres cicatricesde Spenser et Milton montrent que la matérialité peut avoir une portée positive sur l'âmeet l'identité héroïque: elles sont formées par des expériences corporelles.
Le, Roux Selene. "Poetry of revolution : the poetic representation of political conflict and transition in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Marvell’s Cromwell Poems." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2869.
Full textSeventeenth-century England witnessed a time of radical sociopolitical conflict and transition. This thesis aims to examine how two writers closely associated with this period and its controversies, John Milton and Andrew Marvell, represent events as they unfold. This thesis focuses specifically on Milton’s Paradise Lost and Marvell’s Cromwellian poems in order to show how these poets reinterpret established literary conventions and invoke traditional Puritan practices in order to explain and legitimise the precarious new dispensation of post-Civil War England. At the same time, their work produces ambiguities and tensions that threaten to undermine the very discourse that they attempt to endorse. Both poets’ work indicates an active involvement in the political embroilments of their time while retaining its aesthetic value. Therefore, these texts do not only function on an aesthetic level but also within the historical framework of political ideologies. The focus of this thesis is a discussion of the relationship between politics and poetry, with the emphasis on poetry of conflict and transition in civil society. In other words, it is not only considered how different poetic genres reflect social and political change in different ways but also how these genres in turn contribute to political rhetoric. During the English Revolution Milton and Marvell try to provide solutions for the political disturbance, even while remaining aware of the new conflicts produced in the attempt.
Watson, Sara. "De Milton à Emerson : Trajectoires du dissent de l’époque coloniale à la période antebellum (1640-1860)." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSEN046.
Full text: John Milton in his prose works had a deep influence in North America, first in the colonies, and then in the United States. His status as a Dissenter, subject to many interpretations, enabled him to remain relevant throughout the different stages of American history, allowing actors from the American Revolution or the abolitionist campaign to identify with him and his works. This dissertation aims at identifying the mechanisms and stages of this form of cultural transmission, through the study of several American authors: the Quaker John Woolman, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and the Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rooted in the English Civil War, the issues raised by Milton between 1640 and 1660 nonetheless strike a chord within his American readers as germane to their time. This work shall also investigate how Milton’s prose work, through the shifting definitions of Dissent, directly influenced the concept of civil disobedience
Navarro, Aliste Daniela. "Miltonic influence in John Keats: creative process of reshaping myths in Hyperion and The fall of Hyperion: a dream." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2016. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/137777.
Full textBrooks, Scott A. "To move, to please, and to teach : the new poetry and the new music, and the works of Edmund Spenser and John Milton, 1579-1674." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5034.
Full textMcConomy, Erin Elizabeth. "Renaissance humanism in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and Milton's Paradise Lost." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37223.pdf.
Full textVeto-Bougeard, Marie-Elisabeth. "Chateaubriand traducteur : de l'exil au Paradis perdu." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040111.
Full textMathews, Alice McWhirter. "The Path to Paradox: The Effects of the Falls in Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Conrad's "Lord Jim"." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332146/.
Full textSlaby, Frédéric. "Les Ecritures et leurs réécritures protestantes et romantiques dans l'oeuvre de Thomas De Quincey." Caen, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CAEN1558.
Full text2009 marks the sesquicentennial of the death of Thomas De Quincey. The romantic writer’s enduring association with his Confessions of an English Opium Eater—fuelled by his own habit of referring to himself as such—has steered scholarly attention into the exclusive direction of his opium-eating practice, ensuing dreams and their creative and medical consequences. As Frederick Burwick deplores, it would be restrictive to see in this the quintessence of his work while his yet important contribution to religious ideas has never been studied overall. The present Doctoral dissertation proposes to remedy this lack and to open a new critical perspective by looking at the relationship between De Quincey, the Bible and its rewritings. It is also the first piece of work of this kind to draw on the 21 volumes of the complete works as published by Grevel Lindop between 2000 and 2004. It shows that through his relationship to the Bible and its rewritings, Thomas De Quincey “paulinises” romanticism while he romanticises Protestantism, offers a new interpretation of man, builds an original theodicy and renews the definition of literature
Harris, Mitchell Munroe 1977. ""Rise to thought" : Augustinian ethics in Donne, Shakespeare, and Milton." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/17962.
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Bjork, Olin Robert 1970. "Interfacing Milton: the supplementation of Paradise lost." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3835.
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Dolloff, Matthew K. 1966. "Mediating the muse : Milton and the metamorphoses of Urania." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21916.
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Spaulding, Bradley P. "The tree for the forest : eco-typology and the tree of life in John Milton's Paradise lost." 2013. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1720619.
Full textEco-typology and the tree of life in Milton's Paradise lost -- The Matthew Bible, eco-typology and the tree of life in Milton's Eden -- The Geneva Bible, eco-typology and the fruit of the living word in Paradise lost -- Speed's 'Genealogies', the King James Bible and the seed of grace in the later books of Paradise lost.
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Keim, Charles Andrew. "Milton’s God and the Sacred imagination." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15835.
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