When Roth reads Milton : The fall between Paradise Lost and American Pastoral
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Currell, David. (2017). When Roth reads Milton : The fall between Paradise Lost and American Pastoral. In In Hadromi-Allouche, Zohar and Larkin, Áine (Ed.). Fall narratives : An interdisciplinary perspective pp. 137-150 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315581880
Authors | Currell, David |
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Editors | Hadromi-Allouche, Zohar and Larkin, Áine |
Abstract | The recomposition of Paradise Lost across American Pastoral is not a mechanical rehearsal or reauthorisation (to invoke a Miltonic idea, Roth will be no ‘heretic in the truth’), but a testing and even a correction against the authority of new and different histories. 4 Moreover, the nature of American Pastoral ’s intertextuality itself depends upon thematic concerns subtending both narratives. ‘Authority’, ‘obedience’, ‘test’ and ‘fall’ are the common keywords governing both the form and the content of the textual negotiation between Roth and Milton, and the dramatic negotiations among the Levovs. I will argue that this complex dynamic demands an account of intertextuality that goes beyond familiar tropes of capital investment or filial competition. |
Page range | 137-150 |
Year | 2017 |
Book title | Fall narratives : An interdisciplinary perspective |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | London, United Kingdom |
New York, New York | |
ISBN | 9781472483720 |
9781315581880 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315581880 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315581880-20/roth-reads-milton-fall-paradise-lost-american-pastoral-david-currell |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 01 Dec 2016 |
2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 19 Jun 2025 |
Additional information | © 2017 selection and editorial matter, Zohar Hadromi-Allouche and Áine Larkin; individual chapters, the contributors. |
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