Biblical Tradition In Blake S Early Prophecies

Author : Leslie Tannenbaum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400886593

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Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies by Leslie Tannenbaum Pdf

In a detailed examination of the ways in which Blake's use of biblical tradition gives form and meaning to his early prophetic books, Leslie Tannenbaum shows what Blake meant when he called the Bible the Great Code of Art." Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Leslie Tannenbaum,Stephen C. Behrendt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1068016274

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Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies by Leslie Tannenbaum,Stephen C. Behrendt Pdf

Author : Tony Trigilio
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838638546

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"Strange Prophecies Anew" by Tony Trigilio Pdf

This book revives questions of religious and political authority in poetic prophecy. It argues that modern prophecy operates within a dynamic of continuity and estrangement that combines immanent and transcendent modes of representation, creating a poetry that revises the very tradition that authorizes it.

Author : G. A. Rosso
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838752403

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Blake's Prophetic Workshop by G. A. Rosso Pdf

"While William Blake's The Four Zoas may be fascinating to Blake scholars, it presents formidable obstacles to even the most ardent Romanticist, let alone interested critics or the general reader. Blake's Prophetic Workshop attempts to clear some of these obstacles by studying the work from a variety of critical perspectives. It assumes some familiarity with Blake's prophecies, but is cast between the introductory and advanced levels of the two previous books published on the poem." "Although the major reading strategy is close textual analysis, the poem is marked by various cultural and social contexts that need elucidation. Chapters alternate between sketching these contexts and traditions and providing detailed readings within these contexts. The first chapters give a reception history of the work and set it within the tradition of the eighteenth-century "long poem," namely Thomson's Seasons, Pope's An Essay on Man, and Young's Night Thoughts, texts that Blake critiques as Newtonian substitutions of Miltonic prophecy. Chapter three tests these assertions by reading the poem's creation narratives in terms of Anglican-Dissenting apologetics. The final chapters sift the cultural contexts that shape Blake's use of biblical typology and scrutinize several continental philosophies of history, and how they encroach on The Four Zoas, as well as situate the poem in the apocalyptic moment of the 1790s." "While a pluralist approach is followed, author George Anthony Rosso, Jr., subscribes to a fundamentally historical theory that places The Four Zoas in the broad and eclectic tradition of English poetic prophecy. Aware of recent critiques of "the prophetic," Rosso pursues his theory with flexibility and tolerance for other viewpoints." "An appendix provides a useful commentary on the relations between the text and certain designs, drawings, and sketches in the manuscript. Its aim is to show that Blake repeats key images in various frames to provide a sense of context and development, and that the drawings expose what the narrative represses, often in graphic sexual detail. Rosso presents a Blake who is both deadly serious and disarmingly ironic about the relevance of prophecy in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802836348

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A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature by David Lyle Jeffrey Pdf

Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.

Author : Terence Allan Hoagwood
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015010554551

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Prophecy and the Philosophy of Mind by Terence Allan Hoagwood Pdf

Author : Nicholas M. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521620503

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Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake by Nicholas M. Williams Pdf

Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake's unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of contemporaries. Williams presents detailed readings of several of Blake's major poems alongside Rousseau's Emile, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Paine's Rights of Man, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Robert Owen's Utopian Experiments. In so doing, he offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology-critique, and Utopian traditions. Williams argues that if we are truly to understand ideology as it relates to Blake, we must understand the practical situation in which the ideological Blake found himself. His study is a revealing commentary on the work of one of our most challenging poets.

Author : Kathryn S. Freeman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317188087

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A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake by Kathryn S. Freeman Pdf

It is not surprising that visitors to Blake’s cosmology – the most elaborate in the history of British text and design – often demand a map in the form of a reference book. The entries in this volume benefit from the wide range of historical information made available in recent decades regarding the relationship between Blake’s text and design and his biographical, political, social, and religious contexts. Of particular importance, the entries take account of the re-interpretations of Blake with respect to race, gender, and empire in scholarship influenced by the groundbreaking theories that have arisen since the first half of the twentieth century. The intricate fluidity of Blake’s anti-Newtonian universe eludes the fixity of definitions and schema. Central to this guide to Blake's work and ideas is Kathryn S. Freeman's acknowledgment of the paradox of providing orientation in Blake’s universe without disrupting its inherent disorientation of the traditions whereby readers still come to it. In this innovative work, Freeman aligns herself with Blake’s demand that we play an active role in challenging our own readerly habits of passivity as we experience his created and corporeal worlds.

Author : Yosefa Raz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009366304

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The Poetics of Prophecy by Yosefa Raz Pdf

Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studies, this book reveals how Romantic poetry is linked to modern biblical scholarship's development. On the one hand, scholars, intellectuals, and artists discovered models of strong prophecy in biblical texts, shoring up aesthetic and nationalist ideals, while on the other, poets drew upon a counter-tradition of destabilizing, indeterminate, weak prophetic power. Yosefa Raz considers British and German Romanticism alongside their margins, incorporating Hebrew literature written at the turn of the twentieth century in the Russia Empire. Ultimately she explains the weakness of modern poet-prophets not only as a crisis of secularism but also, strikingly, as part of the instability of the biblical text itself. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Jim Springer Borck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210006946469

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William Blake by Jim Springer Borck Pdf

Author : Roger Kojecký,Andrew Tate
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443852456

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Visions and Revisions by Roger Kojecký,Andrew Tate Pdf

Literary texts are more or less obliged to make reference to entities beyond themselves. Drawing on other texts, ideas previously written, or on the resources of language, they make their attempts to communicate, entertain, and enlist sympathy, or even to offer counsel. Some texts profess an a priori vision, others adopt a style of reporting only contingencies. A dialogic relation can be posited between the ideal and the real, heaven and earth, imagination and reason, langue and parole, essence and substance, poetry and prose. The poetic and creative impulse is engaged with an ever present need to purify the dialect of the tribe. The topics in Visions and Revisions reflect writers’ labours with form at whatever distance from the original sources of inspiration. The authors discussed include William Blake, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, William Golding, John Irving, David Lodge, Sara Maitland and Hilary Mantel. Verbal by definition, texts make use of other texts and are dependent on the cultural matrix. Readers are also writers in one kind or another. In both modes they may gain impetus or inspiration by re-visioning their origins as well as their ends. This book will offer readers new ways to understand the literary creations of some writers with affinities to the Western spiritual, and specifically Christian, tradition.

Author : Uttara Natarajan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470766354

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The Romantic Poets by Uttara Natarajan Pdf

This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints

Author : M. Farrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137455505

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Blake and the Methodists by M. Farrell Pdf

Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism – the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime – this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism.

Author : Frank A. Vaughan
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0945636741

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Again to the Life of Eternity by Frank A. Vaughan Pdf

"This work postulates that the set of 116 designs by William Blake, illustrated herein, is not a series of individual responses to the pieces of text they accompany, nor is it a series of responses to the individual poems of Thomas Gray. The designs are also more than illustrations, or corrections, of Gray's speakers or of Gray himself. In the Gray designs, Blake was using the opportunity given him by John and Ann Flaxman in 1797 to explore and explain visually the reformist malaise in the reactionary nineties when the general economic well-being and optimism had been replaced by the effects of war and fear. For Blake, the collapse into the later 1790s is the failure of the imaginative will to sustain the impetus that the American and French Revolutions had begun." "Blake saw several causes for this failure of will and created a set of designs rich in allusions and dense with visual conventions. These visual topoi are personal, topical, classical, biblical, and literary." "Thus, there is a need for a study of the Gray designs that sees them as they are: a unity rich with visual conventions partaking of Blake's revolutionary pattern of development and desire to reshape in specific ways the mind of his audience."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Gerda S. Norvig,William Blake
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520044711

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Dark Figures in the Desired Country by Gerda S. Norvig,William Blake Pdf

"Gerda Norvig has written a book on Blake's Bunyan illustrations that is much more than that: it revises our sense of Blake, of the relationship of illustrator to illustrated text, and the assumptions of Romantic and Romanticist writing. Blake, certainly, will not be the same after Norvig's vigorous analysis, and it is arguable that the same may be true of Romanticism."--Ronald Paulson, author of "Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting" "Specialists in both Blake studies and English Romanticism will find this book extremely interesting and useful. Norvig carefully analyzes for the first time a set of Blake's most accomplished illustrations, a set that (as she points out) has very rarely been reproduced or exhibited. These designs certainly deserve to be better known, and Norvig's insightful and stimulating interpretation of them makes their importance to Blake's thought and career amply clear. This is certainly a book that all Blake specialists will have to know."--Anne K. Mellor, author of "Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters"