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"Downcast eyes" on a "downward path to wisdom": reading Milton's "darkness visible" through a derridean perspective

Author(s): Miriam Piedade Mansur Andrade

Date: 2019

Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ALDR-6SQJTN

Origin: Oasisbr

Subject(s): Jacques Derrida; Posmodern; Poststructuralist; Reformulação de texto (Literatura); Derrida, Jacques, 1930- Memoirs of the blind; Jay, Martin, 1944- Downcast eyes; Semiótica e literatura; Percepção visual na literatura; Estruturalismo (Análise literária); Metáfora; Pos-modernismo (Literatura); Milton, John, 1608-1674 Paradise lost Crítica e interpretação; Jacques Derrida; Jacques Derrida; Posmodern; Posmodern; Poststructuralist; Poststructuralist; Reformulação de texto (Literatura); Reformulação de texto (Literatura); Derrida, Jacques, 1930- Memoirs of the blind; Derrida, Jacques, 1930- Memoirs of the blind; Jay, Martin, 1944- Downcast eyes; Jay, Martin, 1944- Downcast eyes; Semiótica e literatura; Semiótica e literatura; Percepção visual na literatura; Percepção visual na literatura; Estruturalismo (Análise literária); Estruturalismo (Análise literária); Metáfora; Metáfora; Pos-modernismo (Literatura); Pos-modernismo (Literatura); Milton, John, 1608-1674 Paradise lost Crítica e interpretação; Milton, John, 1608-1674 Paradise lost Crítica e interpretação

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In this study, the visual metaphors of John Milton's Paradise Lost are analyzed and read through the poststructuralist perspective of Jacques Derrida on the issue of vison/blindness. To establish the contextualization for the dialogue on this issue, Martin Jay's book Dowcast Eyes serves as a far-reaching guide fron the early allusions on sight up to poststructuralist/posmodern view. A careful reading of the visual metaphors of Paradise Lost will prove that, in this epic poem of the seventeenth century, the dialectics of traditional philosophy on the issue of vision/blindness should be placed "under erasure" with the cancellation of the literal eye and the insertion of the figural "I". To attain such operation, I propose that the exercise of sight undergoes a process of interiorization that resembles the going inwardly through a "path to wisdom". I also propose that the abovementioned operation, the simultaneous cancellation of the eye and insertion of the "I", is accomplished in the epic through a "darkness visible" perspective in the establishment of an (in)stance in the matters of interpretation.

Document Type Master thesis
Language English

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"Downcast eyes" on a "downward path to wisdom": reading Milton's "darkness visible" through a derridean perspective

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