Beastly Blake

Author : Helen P. Bruder,Tristanne Connolly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319897882

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Beastly Blake by Helen P. Bruder,Tristanne Connolly Pdf

Blake’s ‘Human Form Divine’ has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populate Blake’s poetry and designs. The author of ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ was equally struck by the ‘beastliness’ and the beauty of the animal kingdom, the utter otherness of animal subjectivity and the meaningful relationships between humans and other creatures. ‘Conversing with the Animal forms of wisdom night & day’, Blake fathomed how much they have to teach us about creation and eternity. This collection ranges from real animals in Blake’s surroundings, to symbolic creatures in his mythology, to animal presences in his illustrations of Virgil, Dante, Hayley, and Stedman. It makes a third to follow Queer Blake and Sexy Blake in irreverently illuminating blind spots in Blake criticism. Beastly Blake will reward lovers of Blake’s writing and visual art, as well as those interested in Romanticism and animal studies.

Author : David Worrall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031532542

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William Blake’s Visions by David Worrall Pdf

Author : Lucy Cogan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030676889

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Blake and the Failure of Prophecy by Lucy Cogan Pdf

This monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be reconciled. At every stage, Blake’s writing confronts the central problem of all politically minded literature: how texts can become action. Yet he presents us with no single or, indeed, conclusive answer to this question and in this sense it can be said that he fails. Blake, however, never stopped searching for a way that prophecy might be made to live up to its promise in the present. The twentieth-century hermeneuticist Paul Ricoeur shared with Blake a preoccupation with the relationship between time, text and action. Ricoeur’s hermeneutics thus provide a fresh theoretical framework through which to analyse Blake’s attempts to fulfil his prophetic purpose.

Author : Mark R. Sneed
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110580334

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Taming the Beast by Mark R. Sneed Pdf

Leviathan, a manifestation of one of the oldest monsters in recorded history (3rd millennium BCE), and its sidekick, Behemoth, have been the object of centuries of suppression throughout the millennia. Originally cosmic, terrifying creatures who represented disorder and chaos, they have been converted into the more palatable crocodile and hippo by biblical scholars today. However, among the earliest Jews (and Muslims) and possibly Christians, these creatures occupied a significant place in creation and redemption history. Before that, they formed part of a backstory that connects the Bible with the wider ancient Near East. When examining the reception history of these fascinating beasts, several questions emerge. Why are Jewish children today familiar with these creatures, while Christian children know next to nothing about them? Why do many modern biblical scholars follow suit and view them as minor players in the grand scheme of things? Conversely, why has popular culture eagerly embraced them, assimilating the words as symbols for the enormous? More unexpectedly, why have fundamentalist Christians touted them as evidence for the cohabitation of dinosaurs and humans?

Author : Stefan Herbrechter,Ivan Callus,Manuela Rossini,Marija Grech,Megen de Bruin-Molé,Christopher John Müller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031049583

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Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism by Stefan Herbrechter,Ivan Callus,Manuela Rossini,Marija Grech,Megen de Bruin-Molé,Christopher John Müller Pdf

Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism, humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and disability studies. The book also traces the historical representations and understanding of posthumanism across time. Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism’s impact across disciplines and areas of study.

Author : Markus Poetzsch,Cassandra Falke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000380415

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Wild Romanticism by Markus Poetzsch,Cassandra Falke Pdf

Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve scholars, who examine representations of wildness in canonical texts such as Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, "Kubla Khan," "Expostulation and Reply," and Childe Harold ́s Pilgrimage, as well as lesser-known works by Radcliffe, Clare, Hölderlin, P.B. Shelley, and Hogg. Celebrating the wild provided Romantic-period authors with a way of thinking about nature that resists instrumentalization and anthropocentricism, but writing about wilderness also engaged them in debates about the sublime and picturesque as aesthetic categories, about gender and the cultivation of independence as natural, and about the ability of natural forces to resist categorical or literal enclosure. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Romanticism, environmental literature, environmental history, and the environmental humanities more broadly.

Author : Martin Myrone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691198316

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William Blake by Martin Myrone Pdf

"William Blake is a universal artist--an inspiration to visual artists, musicians, poets, and performers worldwide as well as everyone who aspires to the ideals of personal, spiritual, and creative liberty. His heroic story has inspired an invigorated generations. His personal struggles during a period of political terror and oppression, his technical innovations, and his political commitment all remain deeply relevant today. This book presents a comprehensive overview of Blake's work as a printmaker, poet, and painter, foregrounding his relationship with the art world of his time and telling the stories behind many of his most iconic images."--

Author : Richard Hooker,Tim Kelly
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0871294281

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M*a*s*h by Richard Hooker,Tim Kelly Pdf

Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351606936

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Closet Drama by Catherine Burroughs Pdf

Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection unleashes a provocative array of theoretical concerns about the phenomenon of the closet play—a dramatic text written for reading rather than acting.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1592701663

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Beastly Verse by Anonim Pdf

"This is an anthology of 16 animal poems for children, illustrated by the graphic artist JooHee Yoon. The authors range from Lewis Carroll to D.H. Lawrence to Anonymous."--Publisher information.

Author : Angela Margaret Thirkell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547193296

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Wild Strawberries by Angela Margaret Thirkell Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wild Strawberries" by Angela Margaret Thirkell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Jane Spencer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198857518

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Writing about Animals in the Age of Revolution by Jane Spencer Pdf

What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows how an appreciation of human-animal similarity and a literature of compassion for animals developed in the same years during which radical thinkers were first basing political demands on the concept of natural and universal human rights. Some people began to conceptualise animal rights as an extension of the rights of man and woman. But because oppressed people had to insist on their own separation from animals in order to claim the right to a full share in human privileges, the relationship between human and animal rights was fraught and complex. This book examines that relationship in chapters covering the abolition movement, early feminism, and the political reform movement. Donkeys, pigs, apes and many other literary animals became central metaphors within political discourse, fought over in the struggle for rights and freedoms; while at the same time more and more writers became interested in exploring the experiences of animals themselves. We learn how children's writers pioneered narrative techniques for representing animal subjectivity, and how the anti-cruelty campaign of the early 1800s drew on the legacy of 1790s radicalism. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Clare, Southey, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Equiano, Dorothy Kilner, Thomas Spence, Mary Hays, Ignatius Sancho, Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Oswald, John Lawrence, and Thomas Erskine are just a few of the writers considered. Along with other canonical and non-canonical writers of many disciplines, they placed nonhuman animals at the heart of British literature in the age of the French Revolution.

Author : Stephen Scorer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780244719050

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From Somewhere to Here by Stephen Scorer Pdf

From somewhere to here is a collection of my second 50 poems, my writing journey started after I became redundant from my job as a post person in March 2016. There is a wide range of topics that I have tried to cover, these still include some sports poems and some on mental health, but I have started to branch out and put a pen to paper whenever the urge strikes. When I decided on making my own poetry book, to which I mean from writing, printing then putting it all together to make a small collection, I also thought, after reading so many different types of poetry books. Just like taking lifeÕs many routes and paths, so will my poetry books and if you are, mad enough to become a fan, you will take on my journeys. This collection starts where my first collection finished, so from May 2017 to October 2017, I managed to write these fifty poems. If you were mad enough to follow my poetic journey, the first fifty took me over a year to put together, whilst this second fifty took half the time.

Author : Lexi Blake,Sophie Oak
Publisher : DLZ Entertainment
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942297277

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Beast by Lexi Blake,Sophie Oak Pdf

Re-released in a second edition. Re-edited but no substantial changes. A playboy who needs to grow up Fresh from his latest tabloid scandal, vampire playboy Dante Dellacourt has been given an ultimatum. Either he takes a consort and settles down, or his family will disown him. Unwilling to lose everything he has, he reluctantly agrees to find a wife. Marriage is just another kind of contract, after all. No one said anything about love being a part of the bargain. An outcast who has only known hardship Exiled by her pack, Kaja is a werewolf without a home. Her life was never easy in the frozen tundra she grew up in, but it was familiar. Waking up in a foreign landscape, surrounded by bright lights, loud noises, and far too many people has left her overwhelmed. Frightened and with no one to trust, she savagely fights to get free of this strange new world. A passion strong enough to change them both Called to defend the gnomes of the marketplace, Dante is almost blinded by the radiant light coming off the fierce werewolf. Kaja glows like no consort he has ever seen. Gorgeous and wild, she calls to him in ways he had not dreamed possible. For Kaja, she finds in Dante a man unlike any she has ever known. They could not be more different, but she finds him irresistible. In order to claim his werewolf bride, Dante must first discover how to overcome their differences. Will he tame his ferocious beauty, or will she unleash his inner beast?

Author : Robert Ames Bennet
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547097778

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Into the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet Pdf

The beginning was at Cape Town, when Blake and Winthrope boarded the steamer as fellow passengers with Lady Bayrose and her party. This was a week after Winthrope had arrived on the tramp steamer from India, and her Ladyship had explained to Miss Leslie that it was as well for her not to be too hasty in accepting his attention. To be sure, he was an Englishman, his dress and manners were irreproachable, and he was in the prime of ripened youth. Yet Lady Bayrose was too conscientious a chaperon to be fully satisfied with her countryman's bare assertion that he was engaged on a diplomatic mission requiring reticence regarding his identity. She did not see why this should prevent him from confiding in her. Notwithstanding this, Winthrope came aboard ship virtually as a member of her Ladyship's party. He was so quick, so thoughtful of her comfort, and paid so much more attention to her than to Miss Leslie, that her Ladyship had decided to tolerate him, even before Blake became a factor in the situation.