Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics

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Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics is written by Elizabeth Sauer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773566147 (ISBN 10) and 9780773566149 (ISBN 13).

Sauer investigates the texts' discursive practices and the politics of their orchestration of voice exploring the ways in which Milton's multivocal poems interrogated dominant structures of authority in the seventeenth century and constructed in their place a community of voices characterized by dissonances. She incorporates different critical responses to Milton's texts into her argument as a way of contextualizing her own historically engaged approach. By injecting concepts such as multiple narrators and genres, open forms, strategic deferrals, and the exchanges between the poetic voices and discourses of the early modern period, Sauer tells us something about how the poems spoke to their own time as well as how they may be recuperated to speak to ours.