The Narrative Functions of Repetition in John Milton's Paradise Regained.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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The narrative functions of repetition in John Milton's Paradise Regained.

Reich, Angela.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2006

128 pages

$99.95

Hardcover

PR3562

To reassess Milton's least admired work, Reich looks at the repetition that many critics have found troublesome in the poem. Drawing from ancient and modern rhetoricians and narratologists, she finds a narrative strategy of anachrony that plays with notions of foretelling and re-telling, prophecy and repetition. Reich demonstrates that Milton uses formal compositional elements not only ...

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