书名: Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education
作者: Margaret Olofson Thickstun (Author)
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan (April 17, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1403977577
ISBN-13: 978-1403977571
Book Description
This book reads Milton’s Paradise Lost as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters. Many of Milton’s characters enter the action in late adolescence, newly independent and eager to test themselves, to discover who they are and their place in the world. The poem charts their progress into moral adulthood. Taking as its premise that attention to the moral development of the poem’s main characters will open the poem to most undergraduate readers, this book explores both the pedagogical activity within Paradise Lost and the pedagogical activity that the poem encourages.
Review
“By a series of careful reexaminations of the most important ‘scenes of instruction’ in Milton’s text, Thickstun consistently illuminates the significance of details many critics have ignored or misunderstood. The prose is also engaging, often funny, and enviably clear. This is a bracing, entertaining, and generous book.” -- Louis Schwartz, University of Richmond
“Thickstun provides an admirable and salutary reading of Milton’s epic as a ‘fabric of loving relationships’ in which God as Father nurtures the moral growth of his angelic and human offspring, not by a set of rules but by giving Raphael, Abdiel, Uriel, Satan, Adam, Eve, and others moral responsibilities as teachers and learners.” -- Diane Kelsey McColley, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden College of Arts and Sciences
“Thickston’s unprecedented reading of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in dialogue with contemporary research and theory on moral and faith development, provides a compelling demonstration of how great literature can stimulate both cognitive and emotional growth for high school and college students.” -- James W. Fowler, Emory University
About the Author
Margaret Thickstun holds the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professorship in English Literature at Hamilton College.
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作者: Margaret Olofson Thickstun (Author)
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan (April 17, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1403977577
ISBN-13: 978-1403977571
Book Description
This book reads Milton’s Paradise Lost as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters. Many of Milton’s characters enter the action in late adolescence, newly independent and eager to test themselves, to discover who they are and their place in the world. The poem charts their progress into moral adulthood. Taking as its premise that attention to the moral development of the poem’s main characters will open the poem to most undergraduate readers, this book explores both the pedagogical activity within Paradise Lost and the pedagogical activity that the poem encourages.
Review
“By a series of careful reexaminations of the most important ‘scenes of instruction’ in Milton’s text, Thickstun consistently illuminates the significance of details many critics have ignored or misunderstood. The prose is also engaging, often funny, and enviably clear. This is a bracing, entertaining, and generous book.” -- Louis Schwartz, University of Richmond
“Thickstun provides an admirable and salutary reading of Milton’s epic as a ‘fabric of loving relationships’ in which God as Father nurtures the moral growth of his angelic and human offspring, not by a set of rules but by giving Raphael, Abdiel, Uriel, Satan, Adam, Eve, and others moral responsibilities as teachers and learners.” -- Diane Kelsey McColley, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden College of Arts and Sciences
“Thickston’s unprecedented reading of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in dialogue with contemporary research and theory on moral and faith development, provides a compelling demonstration of how great literature can stimulate both cognitive and emotional growth for high school and college students.” -- James W. Fowler, Emory University
About the Author
Margaret Thickstun holds the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professorship in English Literature at Hamilton College.
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