MILTON’S MARGINALIZED HEAVEN
SELECTIVE AUTOMARGINALIZATION IN LITERATURE
Keywords:
Milton, Heaven, inversion, reduction, marginalizationAbstract
Critical readings of Paradise Lost have generally dismissed Milton’s Heaven or dismissed it “with a few words of apology or censure” (Knott). However, Milton’s Heaven can also be seen as marginalized by the larger text of the epic itself. First, in representing Heaven, Milton magnifies the minor characteristics of the Garden of Eden, making Heaven a sort of a glorification of something already proscribed as marginal. On the other hand, representing Heaven, Milton also uses reduced (but recognizable) aspects of Eden that have been crucial or distinctive characteristics of the “Earthly Paradise”. Thus, as a sort of an inverted Eden, Milton’s Heaven is “twice marginalized”. Whether this phenomenon is seen through galvanization of “intentionality” (heretical, or otherwise) or of the reader-response theories, the relevance of the hypothesis about selective self-marginalization in the wider context of literary studies remains to be seen.
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