The End of Learning: Milton and EducationRoutledge, 2006 - 238 páginas 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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... liberty , as opposed to license , is to be found in the moral health of the commonwealth . " For , my fellow ... liberty . Unless your liberty is such as can neither be won nor lost by arms , but is of that kind alone which 66 The End of ...
... liberty , as opposed to license , is to be found in the moral health of the commonwealth . " For , my fellow ... liberty . Unless your liberty is such as can neither be won nor lost by arms , but is of that kind alone which 66 The End of ...
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... liberty . " By contrast , the " ancient liberty " of a republic is to government what blank verse is to " Heroic Poem " as a genre . " Ancient liberty " had commonly served as a rallying cry in republican political writing , from the ...
... liberty . " By contrast , the " ancient liberty " of a republic is to government what blank verse is to " Heroic Poem " as a genre . " Ancient liberty " had commonly served as a rallying cry in republican political writing , from the ...
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... liberty . ” The form of the poem discloses a more profound concept of liberty than this , however . Even on the level of poetic form , the story the poem tells is far more complex than is sometimes realized : for the epic employs rhyme ...
... liberty . ” The form of the poem discloses a more profound concept of liberty than this , however . Even on the level of poetic form , the story the poem tells is far more complex than is sometimes realized : for the epic employs rhyme ...
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Milton as Reader and Educator | 23 |
Chapter | 45 |
Chapter Three | 63 |
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