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John Milton’s ‘Chaotic’ Satan

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Jabłoński T.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2017

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issue 26/1

23-41

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This article investigates the affinity between the characters of Satan and Chaos in JohnMilton’s Paradise Lost. My aim is to show the connections between those characters that appear surprising in the light of Milton’s professed theodicy. On closer inspection certain contradictions become manifest, which may enable analysis of the epic not usually advocated by Miltonic criticism. I propose a fusion of more or less customary Paradise Lost’s criticism with 20th century’s existential philosophy exemplified by Nicolai Berdjaev.

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Sataniczność kreacji bohatera w Arabie Juliusza Słowackiego

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Nowak M.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2021

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issue 35

217-234

EN

This article attempts to read Juliusz Słowacki’s Arab from the comparative perspective of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The protagonist of Słowacki’s oriental tale, who is a variation on the Byronic hero, also shows similarities with Milton’s Satan: unceasing motion, obsession of revenge, loneliness, axiological preference of evil. The analysis of those similarities creates a new interpretative context for Arab, which was hitherto regarded as a superficial study of the pathological psyche or a caricature of the Byronic model.

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The ‘Faust’ or ’Lucifer’ Sonata? On Liszt’s idea of programme music as exemplified by his Piano Sonata in B minor

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Polony L.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology

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2014

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issue 13

17-28

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The musicological tradition places Liszt’s Sonata in B minor within the sphere of compositions inspired by the Faustian myth. Its musical material, its structure and its narrative exhibit certain similarities to the ‘Faust’ Symphony. Yet there has appeared a different and, one may say, a rival interpretation of Sonata in B minor. What is more, it is well-documented from both a musical and a historical point of view. It has been presented by Hungarian pianist and musicologist Tibor Szasz. He proposes the thesis that the Sonata in B minor has been in fact inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost, with its three protagonists: Adam, Satan and Christ. He finds their illustrations and even some key elements of the plot in the Sonata’s narrative. But yet Milton’s Paradise Lost and Goethe’s Faust are both stories of the Fall and Salvation, of the cosmic struggle between good and evil. The triads of their protagonists - Adam and Eve, Satan, and Christ; Faust, Mephisto and Gretchen - are homological. Thus both interpretations of the Sonata, the Goethean and the Miltonian, or, in other words, the Faustian and the Luciferian, are parallel and complementary rather than rival. It is also highly probable that both have had their impact on the genesis of the Sonata in B minor.

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John Milton’s ‘Chaotic’ Satan

Sataniczność kreacji bohatera w Arabie Juliusza Słowackiego

The ‘Faust’ or ’Lucifer’ Sonata? On Liszt’s idea of programme music as exemplified by his Piano Sonata in B minor