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.
- ISBN10 0773514287
- ISBN13 9780773514287
- Publish Date 27 August 1996 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 June 2021
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English