Milton and the Ineffable

Milton and the Ineffable offers a comprehensive reassessment of Milton's poetic oeuvre in light of the literary and conceptual problem posed by the poet's attempt to put into words that which is unsayable and beyond representation. Taking an interdisciplinary philosophical-theological approach, Noam Reisner sheds fresh light on many of the central critical debates surrounding Milton's poetry by situating his emerging poetics of ineffability in the contextof the intellectual cross-currents of Renaissance humanism and Protestant theology. The book plots an ongoing narrative in Milton's poetry about silence and ineffable mystery which forms the intellectual framework within which Milton continually shapes and reshapes his poetic vision of the created universeand the elect man's singular place within it.

Noam Reisner was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1974, a dual British-Israeli national. He took his BA degree in English and Classics at Tel Aviv University and then proceeded to do graduate work in Renaissance English literature at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. After completing his Oxford D.Phil, he was appointed Plumer Research Fellow at St. Anne's College where he continued with his research on early modern literature and undertook teaching for the college. In 2008 he was awarded the Alon Scholarship for young academic researchers from Israel's Council for Higher Education and returned to Israel, where he took up a lectureship in English at Tel Aviv University.