Between Worlds : The Rhetorical Universe of Paradise Lost.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction -- 1 Contingency, Probability, and Free Will -- 2 Milton's Classical Rhetoricians -- 3 Milton's Forerunners: Renaissance Rhetoric -- 4 Milton's Concept of Rhetoric -- 5 The Voice of God: Rhetoric and Religion -- 6 The Rhetoric of Heaven -- 7 Satan and Rhetoric -- 8 The Rhetoric of Hell -- 9 Temptation and the Rhetoric of Paradise -- 10 Descending from Heaven: Anthropopathia and the Rhetoric of Paradise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Rhetorical Figures and Tropes -- A -- C -- D -- E -- H -- M -- P -- R -- S -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

William Pallister analyses the rhetorical methods that Milton uses throughout the poem and examines the effects of the three distinct rhetorical registers observed in each of the poem's major settings.

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