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Paradigms Lost, Paradigms Found: The New Milton Criticism
Author(s) -
Herman Peter C.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00176.x
Subject(s) - criticism , scholarship , orthodoxy , indeterminacy (philosophy) , certainty , epistemology , psychology , state (computer science) , philosophy , literature , law , computer science , art , theology , algorithm , political science
This article describes the current state of Milton studies. In the first part, I outline the dominant paradigm – i.e., that Milton is a poet of certainty and orthodoxy – showing how this paradigm arose and how it continues to shape a great deal of Milton scholarship. In the second part, I outline how a New Milton Criticism is starting to take shape, one which embraces indeterminacy and incertitude.