Answerable Style: Essays on Paradise Lost (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816658725)

Answerable Style was first published in 1953. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

By the use of both new and traditional techniques of critical analysis, Arnold Stein presents in this volume of six essays a fresh interpretation of Milton's epic.

Beginning with the assumption that style is "answerable" to idea, he has tried to trace Milton's epic vision as it is bodied forth in patterns of structure (the ideas tested in action) and patterns of expression (the ideas tested in style). Mr. Stein explains: "My approach is in part based on an attempt to accept as fact both that I am a twentieth century reader and that this is a seventeenth-century poem. Milton is, I think, illuminated by some modern critical considerations; and some of those considerations are in turn illuminated, and some are found wanting."

Author: Arnold Stein
ISBN-10: 0816658722
ISBN-13: 9780816658725
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1953
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d