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Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521763035
A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.
Author : S. Behrendt
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000046347
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 : William Blake,David Bindman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500600252
In his illuminated books,William Blake combined his handwritten text with his exuberant imagery on pages the like of which had not been seen since the great decorated books of the Middle Ages. To read such books as Jerusalem, America and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in cold letterpress bears no comparison to seeing and reading them as Blake conceived them, infused with his sublime and exhilarating colours. At times tiny figures and forms dance among the lines of the text, flames appear to burn up the page, and dense passages of Biblical-sounding text are brought to a jarring halt by startling images of death, destruction and liberation. This edition, produced together with The William Blake Trust, contains all the pages of Blakes twenty or so illuminated books reproduced in true size, an appendix with all Blakes text set in type and an introduction by the noted Blake scholar, David Bindman. They can at last become part of the lives of all lovers of art and poetry.
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1789
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : BSB:BSB00076234
Author : S. Behrendt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230380165
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 : Nancy Willard,Alice Provensen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152938222
A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests and residents, human and animal, at William Blake's inn.
Author : Hazard Adams
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044949779
Author : Henry Summerfield
Publisher : Colin Smythe Publication
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047139657
The writings of William Blake were not understood by his contemporaries or the Victorians, and it was only in 1910, with the publication of Joseph Wicksteed's Blake's Vision of the Book of Job, that the long process of comprehending Blake's works seriously began. Part 1 of the present work consists of twelve chapters that are primarily intended to lead the reader who has little or no acquaintance with Blake's more difficult works through all his books. These consist of Poetical Sketches, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, three early prose tractates, the eleven shorter prophetic books (including The Marriage of Heaven and Hell), the lyrics of the Pickering Manuscript, The Four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem, The Gates of Paradise, The Ghost of Abel and Illustrations of The Book of Job. The reader who wishes to explore a work more fully can proceed to Part II, where a headnote outlines the main scholarly views of its structure and meaning. There are two indexes providing ready access to explanations of terms and proper names.
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0880015020
Blake speaks more directly to us, anticipating the issues, conflicts, and anxieties of the modern world, than any of his contemporaries. it could be argued that he dared, in fact, to be the first modern poet. Above all, Blake teaches us that the imagination is a portion of the divine principle, that "Energy is Eternal Delight," and that "everything that lives is Holy." Human liberty and imagination have never been better served.
Author : Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487534431
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 : Laura Quinney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674035240
It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist. In William Blake on Self and Soul, Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity.Blake’s central topic, Quinney shows us, is a contemporary one: the discomfiture of being a self or subject. The greater the insecurity of the “I” Blake believed, the more it tries to swell into a false but mighty “Selfhood.” And the larger the Selfhood bulks, the lonelier it grows. But why is that so? How is the illusion of “Selfhood” created? What damage does it do? How can one break its hold? These questions lead Blake to some of his most original thinking.Quinney contends that Blake’s hostility toward empiricism and Enlightenment philosophy is based on a penetrating psychological critique: Blake demonstrates that the demystifying science of empiricism deepens the self’s incoherence to itself. Though Blake formulates a therapy for the bewilderment of the self, as he goes on he perceives greater and greater obstacles to the remaking of subjectivity. By showing us this progression, Quinney shows us a Blake for our time.
Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381235
First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years. The book provides detailed readings of each poem and its accompanying design, to redirect attention to the nature and achievement of the book as a whole, to Songs as a single, carefully unified work of verbal and visual art. Particularly close attention is paid, not only to the designs Blake etched to accompany his poems, but also to the many books and treatises for and about children to which, it is argued, Songs alludes or is indebted. Like so many important works of this period, Songs is shown to be autobiographical in nature, one of Blake’s attempts to order and account for the conflicts and crises of his own art and life. Its story is that of an artist’s growth into and out of vision, and of his gradual realization of the dangers and deficiencies of the prophetic mode.
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:503391234
Author : William Blake
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691001480
Milton is a difficult and cryptic poem for those uninitiated in the ways of Blake's allusive and allegorical style. In an introductory essay, the editors directly address the nature of the poem's complexity, demonstrate how Blake's methods set out to disconcert conventional concepts of time, space, and human identity, and suggest some ways readers coming to Milton for the first time can understand and enjoy the challenges it offers. The editors also present a plate-by-plate commentary on how the illustrations contribute to the creation of a composite, visual-verbal experience. The extensive notes to the newly-edited letterpress text will also assist readers through Milton, its central themes and its byways, its heights and its depths. An equally helpful introduction and notes are provided for the three shorter works. Scholars will find much new information in this volume.
Author : Nicholas Marsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350310216
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.