Blake S Heroic Argument

Author : David Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381358

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Blake's Heroic Argument by David Fuller Pdf

First published in 1988, this book is a study of all Blake’s work in illuminated printing. It traces in particular, the development of his ideas on politics, religion, sexuality, and the imagination. There are substantial sections on some of Blake’s best-known works, including the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and the Songs of Innocence and Experience, and full critical essays on the Four Zoas and Jerusalem. The book describes the historical contexts of Blake’s work, and sets it in relation to the political controversies of his age as these are reflected in the writings of Burke, Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft. It discusses the relationships of text and design in Blake, the characteristic verbal textures and rhythms of his longer poems, some influences on his thought, and developing structure of his personal myth and its relationship to other mythologies. The opening chapter discusses areas of fundamental disagreement with some of the main approaches to Blake whilst the final chapter discusses literary theory and the practice of criticism, arguing for an open and explicit involvement of personal experience and values and a more creative use of form in critical writing.

Author : David Fuller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381341

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Blake's Heroic Argument by David Fuller Pdf

First published in 1988, this book is a study of all Blake’s work in illuminated printing. It traces in particular, the development of his ideas on politics, religion, sexuality, and the imagination. There are substantial sections on some of Blake’s best-known works, including the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and the Songs of Innocence and Experience, and full critical essays on the Four Zoas and Jerusalem. The book describes the historical contexts of Blake’s work, and sets it in relation to the political controversies of his age as these are reflected in the writings of Burke, Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft. It discusses the relationships of text and design in Blake, the characteristic verbal textures and rhythms of his longer poems, some influences on his thought, and developing structure of his personal myth and its relationship to other mythologies. The opening chapter discusses areas of fundamental disagreement with some of the main approaches to Blake whilst the final chapter discusses literary theory and the practice of criticism, arguing for an open and explicit involvement of personal experience and values and a more creative use of form in critical writing.

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441114525

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Blake and Kierkegaard by James Rovira Pdf

This study applies Kierkegaardian anxiety to Blake's creation myths to explain how Romantic era creation narratives are a reaction to Enlightenment models of personality.

Author : Matthew Mauger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031377235

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William Blake and the Visionary Law by Matthew Mauger Pdf

This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s pronouncements about law may often sound biblical in tone; but this book argues that they directly address (and are informed by) eighteenth-century legal debates concerning the origin of the English common law, the autonomy of the judicature, the increasing legislative role of Parliament, and the emergence of the notions of constitutionalism and natural rights. Through a study of his illuminated books, manuscript works, notebook drafts and annotations, this study considers Blake’s understanding that law is both integral to humanity itself and a core component of its potential fulfilment of the ‘Human Form Divine’.

Author : David Fallon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137390356

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Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment by David Fallon Pdf

This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. It reevaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myth, religion, and politics, from The French Revolution to Jerusalem and The Laocoön. The book combines careful attention to cultural and historical contexts with close readings of the texts and designs, providing an innovative account of Blake’s creative transformations of Enlightenment, classical, and Christian thought.

Author : G. A. Rosso
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : H. Bruder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230379572

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William Blake and the Daughters of Albion by H. Bruder Pdf

William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment. By placing some of Blake's early prophetic works in startingly new historical contexts (most provocatively those of female conduct and pornography) a very different image of the radical Blake emerges. The book shows what can be achieved when a challenging methodology, feminist historicism, is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work.

Author : S. Behrendt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230380165

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Reading William Blake by S. Behrendt Pdf

William Blake's illuminated poems challenge their readers to participate fully in a highly interactive process of reading. The complex interaction of their verbal and visual texts forces the involved reader to assume greater responsibility than usual for formulating meaning. This book examines some of the ways in which Blake's illuminated poems subvert the customary authority of texts and force readers to reassess both their expectations about reading and their customary responses to words and visual images alike.

Author : Uttara Natarajan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Steve Clark,David Worrall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349234776

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Historicizing Blake by Steve Clark,David Worrall Pdf

Historicizing Blake puts Blake back into the cultural context of his times. These new essays by both established and younger scholars re-address Blake's contemporary milieu after the neglect of ten years of post-structuralist, reader-orientated, methodology. By employing notions of history wider than the purely 'literary', and featuring an important new essay by the period's foremost subcultural historian, Iain McCalman, Historicizing Blake represents a significant contribution towards the re-historicizing of Romanticism.

Author : Lucy Cogan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Jason Whittaker
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789142884

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Divine Images by Jason Whittaker Pdf

Although relatively obscure during his lifetime, William Blake has become one of the most popular English artists and writers, through poems such as “The Tyger” and “Jerusalem,” and images including The Ancient of Days. Less well-known is Blake’s radical religious and political temperament and that his visionary art was created to express a personal mythology that sought to recreate an entirely new approach to philosophy and art. This book examines both Blake’s visual and poetic work over his long career, from early engravings and poems to his final illustrations to Dante and the Book of Job. Divine Images further explores Blake’s immense popular appeal and influence after his death, offering an inspirational look at a pioneering figure.

Author : George A. Jr. Rosso Jr.,Christopher Z. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134820610

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Blake, Politics, and History by George A. Jr. Rosso Jr.,Christopher Z. Hobson Pdf

This anthology of essays charts the work of William Blake - combining traditional and current historicist methods with a plurality of other approaches. While many essays here recuperate a radical Blake opposed to imperialism, slavery, and patriarchy, differences emerge over the nature of Blake's radicalism and his stance on revolution, violence, and democratic pluralism. Contributors may champion a Blake critical of patriarchal discourse and practice, but they remain cautious about Blake's "homocentric" solutions. In the "Blake and women" section, authors seek to reorient discussions by connecting Blake to historical issues concerning women, particularly domestic ideology and the idealised female of the conduct books.

Author : Jackie DiSalvo,G. A. Rosso,Christopher Z. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381389

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Blake, Politics, and History by Jackie DiSalvo,G. A. Rosso,Christopher Z. Hobson Pdf

First published in 1998, this book formed part of an ongoing effort to restore politics and history to the centre of Blake studies. It adopts a three pronged approach when presenting its essays, seeking to promote a return to the political Blake; to deepen the understanding of some of the conversations articulated in Blake’s art by introducing new, historical material or new interpretations of texts; and to highlight differing perspectives on Blake’s politics among historically focused critics. The collection contains essays with varying methodological assumptions and differing positions on questions central to historicist Blake scholarship.

Author : Iulian Boldea
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788868120016

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Memory, Identity and Intercultural Communication by Iulian Boldea Pdf