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John Milton: the First Modern
- Author(s):
- Hugh M. Richmond (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern, LLC 17th-Century English, TM Literary Criticism, TM The Teaching of Literature
- Subject(s):
- Aesthetics, British literature, Comparative literature, Digital humanities
- Item Type:
- Syllabus
- Tag(s):
- comparative literature, creativity, cultural studies, digital humanities, John Milton, Biblical studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6TS41
- Abstract:
- John Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for the New Orleans Carnival, and the name of an acoustic-art rock band. Paradise Lost provides the basis for one of the most successful recent video games, The Talos Principle, in which Milton plays a major character. His autobiographical recoveries from failed ambition provide therapy for modern trauma. We cover, audio-visually, the relevance of Sonnets, Lycidas, Comus, Paradise Lost (Books 1 & 2, 9 & 10), Paradise Regained (Book IV), and Samson Agonistes.
- Notes:
- This course was taught for the UC Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute directed to participants aged 50 or over
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- Attribution-ShareAlike
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