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- W1595367713 abstract "Of all the characters in European literature, that of Satan is perhaps the most problematic. He is evil personified; rebellious and proud, powerful and impotent, deceiver and deceived. Any writer attempting to portray his revolt as a meaningful threat to God's rule runs a very serious risk of downplaying the omnipotence of the deity himself, and of falling rapidly into religious (that is: ethical) dualism. This article seeks to examine the dark side in two such epic poems from two different ages and religious traditions, taking a comparative approach in the hope of shedding some light on two ostensibly similar stories. Despite the accusation of a number of critics that Njegos's Luca Mikrokozma ('The Ray of the Microcosm') is simply an unoriginal imitation of John Milton's Paradise Lost,l what one finds in the Luca is not 'Milton-with-a-gusle',2 but rather a highly original Montenegrin poet, owing debts to no one and everyone, and conveying a systematic3 albeit confusing religious dualism more akin to Origenism, Bogomilism, or German Idealism, than to a slightly heretical seventeenth-century Puritan. Taking a comparative approach to these two poems reveals the uniqueness of Njegos's style and of his methods of adapting existing ideas and motifs to his religious philosophy, which is quintessentially Slavic rather than occidental in its preoccupations and influences. It also reveals a rarely discussed side of Milton, and highlights his creative responses to the age-old problem of evil." @default.
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- W1595367713 title "The Dark Side in Njegos and Milton" @default.
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