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The End of Learning: Milton and Education (Studies in Major Literary Authors) - Softcover

Festa, Thomas

 
9780415762915: The End of Learning: Milton and Education (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 041576291X ISBN 13: 9780415762915
Verlag: Routledge, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This book shows that education constitutes the central metaphor of John Milton's political as well as his poetic writing. Demonstrating how Milton's theory of education emerged from his own practices as a reader and teacher, this book analyzes for the first time the relationship between Milton's own material habits as a reader and his theory of the power of books. Milton's instincts for pedagogy, and the habits of inculcation everywhere visible in his writings, take on a larger political function in his use of education as a trope for the transmission of intellectual history. The book therefore analyzes Paradise Lost in the complementary contexts of its outright educational claims and more subversive countervailing measures in order to show how Milton dramatizes "the end of learning," which is to say both its objective and its failure. The thesis emphasizes the argumentative resourcefulness of Milton's efforts to liberate readers from the tyrannical bonds of their political innocence, most immediately in the context of the failure of Cromwell's regime to establish lasting republican institutions. More philosophically, the book explores the ways in which Milton's works investigate the humane and intellectual yearning for justice in response to the problem of evil.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas Festa is Assistant Professor of Renaissance literature in the English department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. His essays have appeared in Milton Studies, English Language Notes,Reformation, the John Donne Journal, and The OxfordEncyclopedia of British Literature.

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Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
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Englisch
ISBN 10 
041576291X
ISBN 13 
9780415762915
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252
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