{"product_id":"9781611492293-threshold-poetics-milton-intersubject","title":"Threshold Poetics","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMilton and Intersubjectivity\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThreshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of the challenge intersubjective experience poses to doctrinal formulations of difference. Focusing on \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSamson Agonistes\u003c\/i\u003e and using feminist and relational psychoanalytic theory, the project examines representations of looking, working, eating, conversing, and touching, to argue that encounters between selves in 'threshold space' dismantle the binary oppositions that support categorical thinking. A key term throughout the study is recognition, defined as the capacity to tolerate both sameness and difference between separate selves. Recognition of likeness-in-difference thus undermines the exclusionary logic of patriarchal and political hierarchies. Both Eve and Dalila demonstrate the ability to respect the borders of the other while seeking out similarity, but where \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the eventual achievement of intersubjective understanding between Adam and Eve after the fall, \u003ci\u003eSamson Agonistes\u003c\/i\u003e records its failure when Samson, maintaining the boundaries of difference, refuses Dalila's effort to make contact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55178649469302,"sku":"9781611492293","price":89.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_10845712_1_jpg.jpg?v=1737596398","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781611492293-threshold-poetics-milton-intersubject","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}