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... political function for the many prose tracts written in persuasion to Parliament or to other bodies , but a more diffuse sense of political function is also entertained for other works . So , for example , political dimensions are ...
... political function for the many prose tracts written in persuasion to Parliament or to other bodies , but a more diffuse sense of political function is also entertained for other works . So , for example , political dimensions are ...
Page 156
... political func- tionalism , of elevating the ' timeless ' works , and creating a satisfactory if illusory space between the poetic and the political . In the second case , the question assumes that Milton is still in some sense ' political ...
... political func- tionalism , of elevating the ' timeless ' works , and creating a satisfactory if illusory space between the poetic and the political . In the second case , the question assumes that Milton is still in some sense ' political ...
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... political , in the end . It is of course a modern shibboleth , to find political functions for all literary texts , whether those functions are overt and pronounced , or whether they are constructed by scholars who place the texts in ...
... political , in the end . It is of course a modern shibboleth , to find political functions for all literary texts , whether those functions are overt and pronounced , or whether they are constructed by scholars who place the texts in ...
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the Vacation Exercise and Early Latin | 1 |
the Nativity Ode | 19 |
Italy Politics and the Voice of Authority | 59 |
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