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Remembering and repeating : Biblical creation in Paradise Lost

While Milton's inability to discover a privileged origin allies him with postmodernism - and so this study, originally published in 1988, engages thinkers like Freud, Nietzsche, Derrida, and Lacan - that insight is far more ancient. According to Regina Schwartz, the Bible offers Milton his pattern of repeated beginnings.
Print Book, English, 1988
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1988
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 144 pages ; 22 cm
9780521343572, 0521343577
17413229
Part I: "And the sea was so more": chaos vs. creation
The unclean realm
Cosmogonic conflict
Chaos and the fall
Part II: "Secret gaze or open admiration": the invitation to origins
Curiosity and knowledge
Things visible to mortal sight
Part III: "Remember and tell over": creation in sacred song
Ritual recompense
Cosmic liturgy
Paradise lost as hymn
Part IV: "Yet once more": re-creation, repetition, and return
The two falls
The Satanic will
Adamic return