Exiled From Light: Divine Law, Morality, and Violence in Milton's Samson Agonistes
Despite considerable general disagreement about the meaning of Milton's Samson Agonistes, literary critics have largely come to view, Samson, as a saintly Christian hero, with attending themes of election, conversion and regeneration. In a challenge to this dominant interpretation, Derek Wood proposes that Milton's protagonist is actually an emblematic embodiment of Old Testament consciousness as a rigorous, incomplete, literalistic and uncomprehending, fashioned by the old Mosaic Law,...
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Wood proposes that Milton's Samson is an emblematic embodiment of Old Testament consciousness as rigorous, incomplete, literalistic, and uncomprehending, fashioned by the old Mosaic Law, without the amelioration of Christ's charity and forgiveness.BooknewsChallenging the general consensus that the play's protagonist is some kind of saintly Christian hero, Woods (English, St. Francis Xavier U.) argues that he is an emblematic embodiment of Old Testament consciousness, his blindness signifying the darkness before the coming of Christ. He looks at such aspects as the author's voice, love and marriage, structure, and Milton and politics in old age. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface1Introduction: The Critics and Some Problems of Meaning32Intertextuality, Indirection, and Indeterminacy273Fictional Consciousness and the Author's Voice464Tragedy: Theory, Form, and Meaning605Exiled from Light: Sin, Regeneration, the Hero of Faith806Samson and Dalila: Love and Marriage997Samson: Divine Impulsion in the Hero of Faith, Charity, and the Imitation of Christ1188The Structure of Samson Agonistes1409Milton and Politics in Old Age166Epilogue192Appendix193
\ BooknewsChallenging the general consensus that the play's protagonist is some kind of saintly Christian hero, Woods (English, St. Francis Xavier U.) argues that he is an emblematic embodiment of Old Testament consciousness, his blindness signifying the darkness before the coming of Christ. He looks at such aspects as the author's voice, love and marriage, structure, and Milton and politics in old age. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
