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

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dc.creatorMiriam Piedade Mansur Andrade
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-09T23:04:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-09T00:28:13Z
dc.date.available2019-08-09T23:04:23Z
dc.date.issued2006-08-07
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1843/ALDR-6SQJTN
dc.languageInglês
dc.publisherUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais
dc.rightsAcesso Aberto
dc.subjectReformulação de texto (Literatura)
dc.subjectDerrida, Jacques, 1930- Memoirs of the blind
dc.subjectJay, Martin, 1944- Downcast eyes
dc.subjectSemiótica e literatura
dc.subjectPercepção visual na literatura
dc.subjectEstruturalismo (Análise literária)
dc.subjectMetáfora
dc.subjectPos-modernismo (Literatura)
dc.subjectMilton, John, 1608-1674 Paradise lost Crítica e interpretação
dc.subject.otherJacques Derrida
dc.subject.otherPosmodern
dc.subject.otherPoststructuralist
dc.title"Downcast eyes" on a "downward path to wisdom": reading Milton's "darkness visible" through a derridean perspective
dc.typeDissertação de mestrado
local.contributor.advisor1Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sa
local.contributor.referee1Suely Maria de Paula e Silva Lobo
local.contributor.referee1Julio Jeha
local.description.resumoIn 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.
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