Blake And The City

Author : Jennifer Davis Michael
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838756468

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Blake and the City by Jennifer Davis Michael Pdf

Though usually classified as a Romantic, Blake subverts and dissolves the binaries on which Romanticism turns: self and other, art and nature, country and city. Rather than reject the city outright like many of his contemporaries, Blake embraces it as the intricate workshop of human imagination. Each chapter of this book focuses on a specific text of Blake's that illustrates a particular conception of metaphorical embodiment of the city. These shifting metaphors emphasize the construction of all human environments and the need for imaginative labor to build and interpret them. This study seeks to bridge a gap between transcendent and historicist readings of Blake while at the same time challenging assumptions that still color our view of the city in the twenty-first century. Jennifer Davis Michael is Associate Professor of English at the University of the South.

Author : Kathleen Raine
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0940262428

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Golgonooza, City of Imagination by Kathleen Raine Pdf

Kathleen Raine's seven studies are the culmination of more than forty years of research into the meaning of Blake's symbolic themes by a scholar-poet who is recognized internationally as one of the most profound interpreters of his works. They are written in a way that reaches into the very heart of Blake's symbolic thought and, for this reason, may be read as an introduction to the whole of his imaginative vision. This is an essential work for understanding this giant of Imagination and English literature.

Author : Nicholas Marsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137094728

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William Blake: The Poems by Nicholas Marsh Pdf

William Blake was ignored in his own time. Now, however, his Songs of Innocence and Experience and 'prophetic books' are widely admired and studied. The second edition of this successful introductory text: - Leads the reader into the Songs and 'prophetic books' via detailed analysis of individual poems and extracts, and now features additional insightful analyses - Provides useful sections on 'Methods of Analysis' and 'Suggested Work' to aid independent study - Offers expanded historical and cultural context, and an extended sample of critical views that includes discussion of the work of recent critics - Provides up-to-date suggestions for further reading William Blake: The Poems is ideal for students who are encountering the work of this major English poet for the first time. Nicholas Marsh encourages you to enjoy and explore the power and beauty of Blake's poems for yourself.

Author : Nicholas M. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : S. Dent,J. Whittaker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230287402

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Radical Blake by S. Dent,J. Whittaker Pdf

Blake has maintained an enduring popularity amongst a large and diverse audience as a poet, artist and engraver. There are probably more artists, writers, filmmakers and composers working under the influence of Blake than any other figure from the Romantic era. Radical Blake traces his influence and afterlife across a range of major themes such as Metropolitan Blake, Blake and Nationalism, and Blake and Women.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410351340

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A Study Guide for William Blake's "London" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Steve Clark,T. Connolly,Jason Whittaker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230366688

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Blake 2.0 by Steve Clark,T. Connolly,Jason Whittaker Pdf

Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. So who owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page. This volume takes Blake 2.0 as an interactive concept, examining digital dissemination of his works and reinvention by artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across a variety of twentieth-century media.

Author : Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786483032

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William Blake and Gender by Magnus Ankarsjö Pdf

The closing years of the eighteenth century were the particular domain of literary radicals whose work challenged ideas on gender and sexuality. During this transitional period, the poetry of William Blake reflected the changing mores of society as well as his own developing notions of gender. This work presents an in-depth exploration of gender issues in Blake’s three epic poems, The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. The opening chapter discusses basic concepts such as notions of apocalypse, utopia and gender, all essential to the author’s reading of Blake. Background regarding the literary atmosphere of the time, which included influence from the tradition of dissent, English Jacobinism and early feminism, is also included, effectively setting the context for Blake’s work. The book then examines the poems in chronological order. It concentrates particularly on male and female activity within each work (refuting the common assumption that Blake was anti-feminist) while exploring the symbolism of the poetry. Blake’s repeated theme of the struggle between the sexes receives special emphasis, as does the progress of his gender vision through the three poems.

Author : Robert J. Bertholf,Annette S. Levitt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : David V. Erdman,John E. Grant
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400886760

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Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic by David V. Erdman,John E. Grant Pdf

The twenty contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the relationship between Blake's poetry and his visionary forms. Their illustrated discussions explore and debate the nature of Blake's mixed art and the energetic interaction of text and design. Originally published in 1971. 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 : Stephen F. Eisenman,Mark Crosby,Elizabeth Ferrell,Jacob Henry Leveton,W.J.T. Mitchell,John P. Murphy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691175256

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William Blake and the Age of Aquarius by Stephen F. Eisenman,Mark Crosby,Elizabeth Ferrell,Jacob Henry Leveton,W.J.T. Mitchell,John P. Murphy Pdf

William Blake and the Age of Aquarius / by Stephen F. Eisenman -- Prophets, madmen, and millenarians: Blake and the (counter)culture of the 1790s / by Mark Crosby -- William Blake on the West Coast / Elizabeth Ferrell -- William Blake and art against surveillance / Jacob Henry Leveton -- Building Golgonooza in the Age of Aquarius / John Murphy -- "My teacher in all things": Sendak, Blake, and the visual language of childhood / Mark Crosby -- Blake then and now / W.J.T. Mitchell

Author : J. Tambling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230505612

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Blake's Night Thoughts by J. Tambling Pdf

Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.

Author : Susanne M. Sklar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199603145

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Blake's 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre by Susanne M. Sklar Pdf

Susanne Sklar engages with the interpretive challenges of William Blake's illuminated epic poem Jerusalem by considering it as a piece of visionary theatre - an imaginative performance in which characters, settings, and imagery are not confined by mundane space and time - allowing readers to find coherence within its complexities.

Author : Ann K. Mellor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520313293

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Blake's Human Form Divine by Ann K. Mellor Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Author : Naomi Billingsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781838609658

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The Visionary Art of William Blake by Naomi Billingsley Pdf

William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced. Celebrated now for the originality of his thinking, painting and verse, he shocked contemporaries by rejecting all forms of organized worship even while adhering to the truth of the Bible. But how did he come to equate Christianity with art? How did he use images and paint to express those radical and prophetic ideas about religion which he came in time to believe? And why did he conceive of Christ himself as an artist: in fact, as the artist, par excellence? These are among the questions which Naomi Billingsley explores in her subtle and wide-ranging new study in art, religion and the history of ideas. Suggesting that Blake expresses through his representations of Jesus a truly distinctive theology of art, and offering detailed readings of Blake's paintings and biblical commentary, she argues that her subject thought of Christ as an artist-archetype. Blake's is thus a distinctively 'Romantic' vision of art in which both the artist and his saviour fundamentally change the way that the world is perceived.