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Blake's Nostos

Kathryn S. Freeman
Blake s Nostos Book PDF

Author : Kathryn S. Freeman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438403298

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Blake's Nostos establishes The Four Zoas, Blake's controversial, unfinished epic, as the culmination of the poet's mythos. Kathryn S. Freeman shows that, in its freedom to experiment with nontraditional narrative, this prophetic book is Blake's fullest representation of nondual vision as it coexists with the material world. Blake's scheme of consciousness eliminates the Enlightenment hierarchy of faculties in a structure centered around a nondual vision operating through and subsuming the fragmented world. The author draws on the analogue of Eastern philosophy to describe Blake's nondualism. According to this interpretation of Blake's epic, consciousness itself is the hero whose nostos is the apocalyptic return to wholeness from the multiple ruptures that comprise the fragmenting journey of Albion's dualistic dream. Blake's Nostos demonstrates that for each of the central elements of myth—causality, narratology, figuration, and teleology—Blake superimposes such dual and nondual perspectives as time and eternity as well as bounded space and infinity.

William Blake and Gender

Magnus Ankarsjö
William Blake and Gender Book PDF

Author : Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 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.

Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy

Sibylle Erle
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Author : Sibylle Erle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351193696

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Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy by Sibylle Erle Pdf

"William Blake never travelled to the continent, yet his creation myth is far more European than has ever been acknowledged. The painter Henry Fuseli introduced Blake to traditional European thinking, and Blake responded to late 18th century body-theory in his Urizen books (1794-95), which emerged from his professional work as a copy-engraver on Henry Hunter's translation of Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1789-98). Lavater's work contains hundreds of portraits and their physiognomical readings. Blake, Fuseli, Joshua Reynolds and their contemporaries took a keen interest in the ideas behind physiognomy in their search for the right balance between good likeness and type in portraits. Blake, Lavater, and Physiognomy demonstrates how the problems occurring during the production of the Hunter translation resonate in Blake's treatment of the Genesis story. Blake takes us back to the creation of the human body, and interrogates the idea that 'God created man after his own likeness.' He introduces the 'Net of Religion', a device which presses the human form into material shape, giving it personality and identity. As Erle shows, Blake's startlingly original take on the creation myth is informed by Lavater's pursuit of physiognomy: the search for divine likeness, traced in the faces of their contemporary men."

A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake

Kathryn S. Freeman
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Author : Kathryn S. Freeman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.

Brahma in the West

David Weir
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Author : David Weir
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791486405

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Examining William Blake's poetry in relation to the mythographic tradition of the eighteenth century and emphasizing the British discovery of Hindu literature, David Weir argues that Blake's mythic system springs from the same rich historical context that produced the Oriental Renaissance. That context includes republican politics and dissenting theology—two interrelated developments that help elucidate many of the obscurities of Blake's poetry and explain much of its intellectual energy. Weir shows how Blake's poetic career underwent a profound development as a result of his exposure to Hindu mythology. By combining mythographic insight with republican politics and Protestant dissent, Blake devised a poetic system that opposed the powers of Church and King.

Glorious Incomprehensible

Sheila A. Spector
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Author : Sheila A. Spector
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838754694

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Glorious Incomprehensible by Sheila A. Spector Pdf

Traces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still completing 'Jerusalem'.

The Chained Boy

Christopher Z. Hobson
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Author : Christopher Z. Hobson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083875385X

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The Chained Boy by Christopher Z. Hobson Pdf

Study of William Blake's radical thought in light of his major works, such as Jerusalem (1804-20).

Wonders Divine

Sheila A. Spector
Wonders Divine Book PDF

Author : Sheila A. Spector
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cabala in literature
ISBN : 0838754686

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Wonders Divine by Sheila A. Spector Pdf

Explores Blake's esoteric and religious influences

Blake

Anonim
Blake Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030047121

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Blake by Anonim Pdf

An illustrated quarterly.

Epic

Herbert F. Tucker
Epic Book PDF

Author : Herbert F. Tucker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199232994

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Epic by Herbert F. Tucker Pdf

Literary history has conventionally viewed Milton as the last real practitioner of the epic in English verse. Herbert Tucker's spirited book shows that the British tradition of epic poetry was unbroken from the French Revolution to World War I.

Orientalism Transposed

Julie F. Codell,Dianne Sacko Macleod
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Author : Julie F. Codell,Dianne Sacko Macleod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429761645

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Orientalism Transposed by Julie F. Codell,Dianne Sacko Macleod Pdf

First published in 1998, this volume reflects that, ever since the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism twenty years ago, scholars have tested his thesis against the wider application of his terms to cultural practices and the rhetoric of power. The cultural impact of the British on their colonies has been extensively investigated but only recently have scholars begun to ask in what ways British culture was transformed by its contact with the colonies. The essays in this volume demonstrate how influential the Empire was on British culture from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. They show how, from cross-cultural cross-dressing to Buddhism, British artists and writers appropriated unfamiliar and challenging aspects of the culture of the Empire for their own purposes. An examination is also made of the extent to which colonized people engaged in the orientalising discourse, amending and subverting it, even re-applying its stereotypes to the British themselves. Finally, two essays explore instances of the exchange of ideas between colonies. Several of the essays are based on papers given at the 1996 Conference of the College Arts Association.

The Reception of Blake in the Orient

Steve Clark,Masashi Suzuki
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Author : Steve Clark,Masashi Suzuki
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441143433

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The Reception of Blake in the Orient by Steve Clark,Masashi Suzuki Pdf

This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism (and other Western intellectual movements) have been received in the Orient.

Weaving the Word

Kathryn Sullivan Kruger
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Author : Kathryn Sullivan Kruger
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910527

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Weaving the Word by Kathryn Sullivan Kruger Pdf

"Through an analysis of specific weaving stories, the difference between a text and a textile becomes blurred. Such stories portray women weavers transforming their domestic activity of making textiles into one of making texts by inscribing their cloth with both personal and political messages."--BOOK JACKET.

British Romanticism in European Perspective

Steve Clark,Tristanne Connolly
British Romanticism in European Perspective Book PDF

Author : Steve Clark,Tristanne Connolly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137461964

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British Romanticism in European Perspective by Steve Clark,Tristanne Connolly Pdf

What, and when, is British Romanticism, if seen not in island isolation but cosmopolitan integration with European Romantic literature, history and culture? The essays here range from poetry and the novel to science writing, philosophy, visual art, opera and melodrama; from France and Germany to Italy and Bosnia.

William Blake

Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak
William Blake Book PDF

Author : Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.