Libro Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost De Waddington, Raymond

portada Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Raymond Waddington

Editorial

University of Toronto Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

328

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1 x 15.5 x 3.0 cm

Peso

0.64 kg.

ISBN

1442643420

ISBN13

9781442643420

Categorías

Europa
Estilo medieval
Estudios literarios antiguos, clásicos y medievales
Historia del renacimiento

Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

Raymond Waddington (Autor) · University of Toronto Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Looking Into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost"

What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or 'designs' that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the 'trials, ' or testing situations, which require interpretation, choice, and action from its characters.Waddington situates the poem within the context of providentialism's centrality to seventeenth-century thought and life, arguing that Milton's own conception of providence was deeply influenced by the theology of Jacob Arminius. Using Milton's Arminian conception of free will, he then looks at the providential trials experienced by angels and humans. Finally, the work explores the ways in which providentialism infiltrates various kinds of discourse, ranging from military to medical, and from political to philosophical.