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The grammar of ethics in Paradise Lost.

Minas, Steven Aaron.

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紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The grammar of ethics in Paradise Lost./
作者:	Minas, Steven Aaron.
面頁冊數:	75 p.
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International54-04(E).
標題:	English literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1587299
ISBN:	9781321710083

The grammar of ethics in Paradise Lost.
Minas, Steven Aaron.

The grammar of ethics in Paradise Lost. - 75 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgetown University, 2015.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

A current divide exists in Milton criticism between those who view "Paradise Lost" as an indeterminate work composed of irresolvable choices and aporias (contradictions), and those who view the poem as a singular work of moral certainty. I propose that a way beyond the two opposed interpretive positions lies in what I call the poem's "grammar of ethics," a set of generative rules underlying the ethical claims of the poem. The argument that I make for a grammar of ethics relies for its conceptual framework on the early linguistic work of Noam Chomsky, whose theory of generative grammar provides a helpful analogy to understanding the complex way in which "Paradise Lost's" moral and narrative structure works. Just as the innate rules and principles of generative grammar allow humans to create an infinite number of sentences out of limited means, I contend that an innate moral grammar underlies "Paradise Lost's" narrative structure, which allows the reader to generate her own ethical position. In addition to Chomsky's work, I draw on recent scholarship in moral cognition to make the connection between language and morals.

ISBN: 9781321710083Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

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