English Blake

Author : Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Bernard Blackstone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107503427

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English Blake by Bernard Blackstone Pdf

Originally published in 1949, this book presents a study of William Blake's works and philosophy, focusing particularly on his position in relation to the broader currents of 'English thought'. Illustrative figures and notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Blake's position within the English artistic and literary tradition.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : BSB:BSB00076234

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Songs of Innocence by William Blake Pdf

Author : Morris Eaves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521786770

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The Cambridge Companion to William Blake by Morris Eaves Pdf

Poet, painter, and engraver William Blake died in 1827 in obscure poverty with few admirers. The attention paid today to his remarkable poems, prints, and paintings would have astonished his contemporaries. Admired for his defiant, uncompromising creativity, he has become one of the most anthologized and studied writers in English and one of the most studied and collected British artists. His urge to cast words and images into masterpieces of revelation has left us with complex, forceful, extravagant, some times bizarre works of written and visual art that rank among the greatest challenges to plain understanding ever created. This Companion aims to provide guidance to Blake s work in fresh and readable introductions: biographical, literary, art historical, political, religious, and bibliographical. Together with a chronology, guides to further reading, and glossary of terms, they identify the key points of departure into Blake s multifarious world and work.

Author : John Kenneth Muir
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476604930

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A History and Critical Analysis of Blake’s 7, the 1978–1981 British Television Space Adventure by John Kenneth Muir Pdf

Blake’s 7, Terry Nation’s science fiction tale of cosmic freedom fighters, became a hit series in Great Britain when it premiered in 1978. Eight years later, the show quickly became a cult program in America. A dramatization of futuristic outlaw heroes who defend the innocent from both alien and human conquering forces, the series might better be said to be equal parts Robin Hood and The Magnificent Seven. The series defied traditional genre elements of science fiction television, and developed the concept of the continual “story arc” years before such shows as Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine. This book provides a critical history and episode guide for Blake’s 7, including commentaries for all 52 episodes. Also included are analytical essays on the show, dealing with such topics as themes, imagery and story arc; a consideration of the series as a futuristic Robin Hood myth; cinematography and visual effects; and an overview of Blake’s 7 in books, comics and videos. A detailed appendix lists the genre conventions found in the series. The author also includes information about Blake’s 7 fan clubs and Internet sites.

Author : Steve Clark,T. Connolly,Jason Whittaker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Adrian Mitchell
Publisher : London : Cape
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035249627

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Tyger by Adrian Mitchell Pdf

A celebration of the life and works of William Blake.

Author : Jackie DiSalvo,G. A. Rosso,Christopher Z. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Joseph P. Natoli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802039194

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Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake by Northrop Frye Pdf

Angela Esterhammer, a student of Frye's in the 1980s, has provided annotation and an introduction that demonstrates the poets' importance for Frye's literary and cultural criticism and provides a twenty-first-century perspective on the legacy of his work.

Author : Shivashankar Mishra
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170992427

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Rise of William Blake by Shivashankar Mishra Pdf

Author : H. Bruder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : N. Rawlinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230287235

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William Blake’s Comic Vision by N. Rawlinson Pdf

Blake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority. But, for the eighteenth century, comedy played a pivotal role in debates on aesthetics, education, spirituality and morality. This exciting new study blends a close reading of Blake's early work with fascinating historical research to demonstrate that the comic was an essential component of Blake's artistic Vision.

Author : G.E. Bentley Jnr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.

Author : Helen P Bruder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317321163

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Blake, Gender and Culture by Helen P Bruder Pdf

Blake's combination of verse and design invites interdisciplinary study. The essays in this collection approach his work from a variety of perspectives including masculinity, performance, plant biology, empire, politics and sexuality.