Blake And Modern Literature

Author : Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487534431

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William Blake by Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak Pdf

William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including the revolution in the life sciences, Blake’s imagination – often prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive – offers an inside view of such tumultuous and catastrophic change. A hybrid of text and image, Blake’s writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake’s unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake’s output from the shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in William Blake: Modernity and Disaster predict the discontents of modernity by reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history. His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a different future, or any future at all.

Author : E. Larrissy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230627444

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Blake and Modern Literature by E. Larrissy Pdf

William Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.

Author : Robert J. Bertholf,Annette S. Levitt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0791496643

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William Blake and the Moderns by Robert J. Bertholf,Annette S. Levitt Pdf

Robert Bertholf and Annette Levitt have assembled thirteen essays that establish Blake as a "central voice molding modern literature and thought." The essays in this volume examine Blake's influence on modern poetry, the modern novel, and modern thought from various critical approaches. This collection maps out the lines of direct literary influences and indirect intellectual affinities that make up the tradition of enacted form. Through the use of various aspects of Blake's form and ideas, this book reasserts the idea of continuity, the drive for wholeness, and the arrival of new poetic forms. Blake is considered one of the major and most modern of Romantics. This collection positions him as a precursor of the modern, using his vision and poetry as a base for discussing a central issue in literary theory today—influence and the literary tradition—just how is the legacy of a literary artist passed on, and how is it resurrected in the works of subsequent generations.

Author : Robert J. Bertholf,Annette S. Levitt
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1983-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873956168

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William Blake and the Moderns by Robert J. Bertholf,Annette S. Levitt Pdf

Robert Bertholf and Annette Levitt have assembled thirteen essays that establish Blake as a “central voice molding modern literature and thought.” The essays in this volume examine Blake’s influence on modern poetry, the modern novel, and modern thought from various critical approaches. This collection maps out the lines of direct literary influences and indirect intellectual affinities that make up the tradition of enacted form. Through the use of various aspects of Blake’s form and ideas, this book reasserts the idea of continuity, the drive for wholeness, and the arrival of new poetic forms. Blake is considered one of the major and most modern of Romantics. This collection positions him as a precursor of the modern, using his vision and poetry as a base for discussing a central issue in literary theory today—influence and the literary tradition—just how is the legacy of a literary artist passed on, and how is it resurrected in the works of subsequent generations.

Author : S. Clark,J. Whittaker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230210776

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Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture by S. Clark,J. Whittaker Pdf

This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day. Blake's influence on later generations of writers and artists is more important than ever, extending into film, psychology, children's literature and graphic novels.

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 : William Blake,David Bindman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500600252

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William Blake by William Blake,David Bindman Pdf

In his illuminated books,William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To read such books as Jerusalem, America and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them as Blake conceived them, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colours. At times tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction and liberation. This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blakes twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blakes text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman. They can at last become part of the lives of all lovers of art and poetry.

Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476615738

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Thinking Through Blake by Hazard Adams Pdf

A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Hazard Adams presents a selection of essays that span his long career exploring the work and thought of the groundbreaking artist. Topics range from the symbolic form in Blake’s poem Jerusalem, the world view of Blake in relation to cultural policy and the notion of contrariety in Blake’s writings to the relation of Chinese literary thought to that of the West, the critical work of Northrop Frye and Murray Krieger and the cultural and academic status of the humanities. The essays chart the evolution of Adams’ own neo–Blakean literary thought over the past four decades, chronicling an effort to seek not merely a method but a philosophical base for the practice of literary criticism.

Author : Blake Butler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525535232

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Alice Knott by Blake Butler Pdf

Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Refinery29 A hypnotic, wildly inventive novel about art, violence, and endurance Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious near-identical brother. Much of her family’s fortune has been spent on a world-class collection of artwork, which she stores in a vault in her lonely, cavernous house. One day, she awakens to find the artwork destroyed, the act of vandalism captured in a viral video that soon triggers a rash of copycat incidents. As more videos follow and the world’s most priceless works of art are destroyed one by one, Alice finds that she has become the chief suspect in an international conspiracy—even as her psyche becomes a shadowed landscape of childhood demons and cognitive disorder. Unsettling, almost physically immersive, Alice Knott is a virtuoso exploration of the meaning of art and the lasting afterlife of trauma, as well as a deeply humane portrait of a woman whose trials feel both apocalyptic and universal.

Author : Edward J. Ahearn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300065361

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Visionary Fictions by Edward J. Ahearn Pdf

Gennemgang af temaet verdens undergang hos forfatterne William Blake, Novalis, Gérard de Nerval, Comte de Lautréamont, André Breton, Louis Aragon, William Burroughs, Monique Wittig og Jamaica Kincaid

Author : Paul Youngquist
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271039619

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Madness and Blake's Myth by Paul Youngquist Pdf

Author : William Blake
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547320685

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Poems of William Blake by William Blake Pdf

The following work is a collection of poems written by William Blake. He was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". Titles to be found in this book include 'The Echoing Green', 'The Lamb', and 'The Blossom.'

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Viking
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1956-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 067001026X

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The Portable William Blake by William Blake Pdf

Reprint of the 1946 ed. published by Viking Press, New York.

Author : Jody Blake
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271017538

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Le Tumulte Noir by Jody Blake Pdf

Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400847471

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Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye Pdf

This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of knowledge that was also, for him, a theory of religion, of human life and of art, and how this rigorously defined system of ideas found expression in the complicated but consistent symbolism of his poetry. The second and third parts, after indicating the relation of Blake to English literature and the intellectual atmosphere of his own time, explain the meaning of Blake's poems and the significance of their characters.