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- Title
Spatial Allegory and Creation Old and New in Milton's Hexaemeral Narrative.
- Authors
Hillier, Russell M.
- Abstract
The article explores the narrative histories of archangel Raphael in books 5, 6, and 7 of John Milton's "Paradise Lost." According to William B. Hunter's interpretation of "Paradise Lost," archangel Raphael's martial narrative works as a temporal allegory. It relates that Raphael's account of the Creation operates as a spatial allegory that communicates the Son's work of restoration by associating vertical movements of descent and ascent with the salvific process of the Son's incarnation, death, and resurrection. In addition to the restorative scheme of symbolic movement, Milton implements a range of literary devices to inscribe within Raphael's history of the old and new Creation of humanity accomplished by the incarnate Son's saving work.
- Subjects
RAPHAEL (Archangel); LITERATURE &; history; MILTON, John, 1608-1674; PARADISE Lost (Poem : Milton); PERSONIFICATION in literature; ALLEGORY; CHRISTIAN literature; SYMBOLISM in literature; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); THEOLOGICAL anthropology
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2009, Vol 49, Issue 1, p121
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.0.0044