{"pk":5928,"title":"Indirect Communication - The Shadow in Paradise Lost","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the shadow symbol shows how the idea of God functions in a secular context. This symbol creates a parallel between worship and the creative act; both actions constitute efforts toward union through indirect communication. The persistence of this symbol--from works as old as Dante’s Divine Comedy to David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest of 1996--inspires further examination of how this parallel affects the way we view art.","language":"en","license":{"name":"All rights reserved","short_name":"Copyright","text":"© the author(s). All rights reserved.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors"},"keywords":[{"word":"Milton, Paradise Lost, Nietzsche, shadow, self, perceptual metaphor, author, reader"},{"word":"English Literature, Critical Theory"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rg282p1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Megan","middle_name":"Brianne","last_name":"Clement","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2013-02-23T04:06:24Z","date_accepted":"2013-02-23T04:06:24Z","date_published":"2013-05-21T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5928/galley/3636/download/"}]}