| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77578 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | Modern criticism on John Milton's Paradise Lost has figured the poem as anti-rhetorical in its depictions of God, Satan, and their respective speaking styles. Such critiques, however, reveal a disregard for the rhetorical tradition and Milton's self-proclaimed humanism, and as a result reduce Milton's conception of rhetoric to a rejection of the art form. With an overview of humanist and Renaissance Christian understandings of rhetoric, this paper argues for a reconsideration of the poem's treatment of rhetoric. This paper demonstrates how Milton's depiction of the speech of God and Satan presents the reader with examples of ideal and corrupted eloquence respectively in order to educate the reader about the benefits and dangers of rhetoric. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:52:56Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Huffman, Clifford. | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Pfeiffer, Douglas | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Newhouse, Libby | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:52:56Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:52:56Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of English. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 46 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77578 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2013-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | British and Irish literature | |
| dcterms.title | Milton's Ideal Orator: God and Ethical Eloquence in Paradise Lost | |
| dcterms.type | Thesis | |
