Blake S Visionary Forms Dramatic

Author : David V. Erdman,John E. Grant
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : David V. Erdman,John E. Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:79112999

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

Author : Diane Piccitto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137378019

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Blake's Drama by Diane Piccitto Pdf

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

Author : Irene Tayler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011781460

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Visionary Forms Dramatic: William Blake's Illustrations to the Poetry of Thomas Gray by Irene Tayler Pdf

Author : Susanne M. Sklar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191619144

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

Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.' Blake's avowed intention in constructing the work was to move readers from a solely rational way of being (called Ulro) to one that is highly imaginative (called Eden/Eternity), with each word chosen to suit 'the mouth of a true Orator.' Rational interpretation is of limited use when reading this multifaceted epic and its non-linear structure presents a perennial challenge for readers. Susanne Sklar engages with the interpretive challenges of 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. With his characters, Blake's readers can participate imaginatively in what Blake calls 'the Divine Body, the Saviour's Kingdom,' a way of being in which all things interconnect: spiritually, ecologically, socially, and erotically. Imaginatively engaging with Jerusalem involves close textual reading and analysis. The first part of this book discusses the notion of visionary theatre, and the theological, literary, and historical antecedents of Jerusalem's imagery, characters, and settings. Particular attention is paid to the theological context of Blake's Jesus ('the Divine Body'), and Jerusalem, the heroine of his poem. This prepares the ground for a scene-by-scene commentary of the entire illuminated work. Jerusalem tells the story of Albion's fall, many rescue attempts, escalating violence and oppression, and a surprising apocalypse —in which all living things, awakening, are transfigured in ferocious forgiveness.

Author : Diane Piccitto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137378019

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Blake's Drama by Diane Piccitto Pdf

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

Author : Kathryn S. Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317188070

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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 : Joseph P. Natoli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381198

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Twentieth-Century Blake Criticism by Joseph P. Natoli Pdf

First published in 1982 this book provides a bibliography of commentary, criticism, and scholarship on the works of William Blake. It covers the period from Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry in 1947 to 1980. The criticism is organised according to eleven classifications in order to help direct the research of students and scholars and each chapter is preceded by an introductory essay in order to guide the reader.

Author : Sarah Haggarty,Jon A Mee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137382450

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Sarah Haggarty,Jon A Mee Pdf

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: - Explains the unique development of Songs as an illuminated book - Considers the earliest reactions to the text during Blake's lifetime, and his gathering posthumous reputation in the nineteenth century - Explores modern critical approaches and recent debates - Discusses key topics that have been of abiding interest to critics, including the relationship between text and image in Blake's 'composite art' Insightful and stimulating, this introductory guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to navigate their way through the mass of criticism surrounding Blake's most widely-studied work.

Author : Jules van Lieshout
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004489004

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Within and Without Eternity by Jules van Lieshout Pdf

William Blake's literary works are characterized by a ceaseless dynamics constituted in the fierce interactions of the language, thought, and narrative of his myth. Highlighting the critical problems facing the linear approach that the study of Blake has adopted from the traditional methodology of Newtonian science, Jules van Lieshout argues that nonlinearity is the key to understanding Blake's prophecies. Throughout his discussions, Van Lieshout focuses on the relation of Blake's Generation and Eternity, which he identifies as Bakhtinian 'world views'. In Generation, existence is finalized as a hierarchy of geometric 'dark globes', each assuming the character of universal whole to the exclusion of all others. Eternity, on the other hand, is Blake's fractal 'human form' of existence that is continuously organized and reorganized in the dynamic interaction of whole and parts. Blake represents these world views as interinvolved. Their dynamic interaction reflects and refracts his conceptual thought, mythological narrative, and poetic language. Hence, his visionary epic self-organizes into a self-similar complex system whose patterns of behaviour are not merely remarkably like those that modern applications of nonlinear dynamics are revealing in the physical world, but are indeed inherent in the processes of writing and reading his individual works.

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : E. Larrissy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Ann K. Mellor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : M. Farrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : G.E. Bentley Jnr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134782352

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William Blake by G.E. Bentley Jnr. Pdf

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.