Speech Acts in Blakes Milton

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Brian Russell Graham is a two-time graduate of the University of Glasgow, where he completed an M.A. (Hons.) and PhD in English Literature. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School. His first monograph, The Necessary Unity of Opposites, published in 2011, is a study of Northrop Frye, particularly Frye's dialectical thinking. His second monograph, On a Common Culture, was published in 2022.

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Using a framework based on J. L. Austin's understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer's work on how things are done with words in Milton's and Blake's poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in Blake's epic poem Milton.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: The Bard's Song I: From the Beginning Until The Creation of Fallen Space

Chapter 2: The Bard's Song II: The Creation of Fallen Time and Death, and Milton's Response to the Song

Chapter 3: 'the forward path / Of Milton's journey' and the Opponents of His Progress

Chapter 4: Opposition to Milton in Golgonooza and Los's Defence of the 'Shadow Terrible'

Chapter 5: The Descent of Ololon

Chapter 6: The Redemption of the Contraries

Chapter 7: Coda: Milton as Speech Act

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