Literature and Epic Space: The Case of Paradise Lost

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  • Luiz Fernando Sá Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.24.2.285-294

Keywords:

John Milton, space, epic, empire, Paradise Lost

Abstract

This essay focuses on the issues concerning John Milton’s Paradise Lost and their relations to the representations of space in the epic tradition. This essay also develops a contrapuntal reading between literary space in the classical tradition of Virgil and Lucan, the space constitutive of empire associated with Tasso and Camões, and the internalized space as found in the epic poem of Milton, viz., paradise within.

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Published

2014-08-30

How to Cite

Sá, L. F. (2014). Literature and Epic Space: The Case of Paradise Lost. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 24(2), 285–294. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.24.2.285-294

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2014): Literatura e Fotografia

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Varia

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