William Blake S Gothic Imagination

Author : Christopher Bundock,Elizabeth Effinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Gothic poetry
ISBN : 1526121948

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William Blake's Gothic Imagination by Christopher Bundock,Elizabeth Effinger Pdf

Scholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake's affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blake's intersection with the Gothic exists. William Blake's gothic imagination seeks to redress this disconnect. The papers here do not simply identify Blake's Gothic conventions but, thanks to recent scholarship on affect, psychology, and embodiment in Gothic studies, reach deeper into the tissue of anxieties that take confused form through this notoriously nebulous historical, aesthetic, and narrative mode. The collection opens with papers touching on literary form, history, lineation, and narrative in Blake's work, establishing contact with major topics in Gothic studies. Then refines its focus to Blake's bloody, nervous bodies, through which he explores various kinds of Gothic horror related to reproduction, anatomy, sexuality, affect, and materiality. Rather than transcendent images, this collection attends to Blake's 'dark visions of torment'.

Author : Chris Bundock,Elizabeth Effinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526166968

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William Blake's Gothic Imagination by Chris Bundock,Elizabeth Effinger Pdf

While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake's literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.

Author : Martin Myrone,Christopher Frayling,Marina Warner,Tate Gallery
Publisher : Tate
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015063653540

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Gothic Nightmares by Martin Myrone,Christopher Frayling,Marina Warner,Tate Gallery Pdf

"Gothic Nightmares explores the taste for weird, supernatural and fantastic themes in British art between 1770 and 1830. Presenting the wildly original and extravagant images of Henry Fuseli and his contemporaries in the context of the 'Gothic', it shows how art, taste and ideas of the self were transformed in an era of revolutionary change, helping lay the foundations of modern culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Lucy Cogan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : 50,8 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 : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230337961

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The Gothic Imagination by John C. Tibbetts Pdf

This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over the last 200 years and its contemporary influence on film and media.

Author : Honor Penelope Vallor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : OCLC:28712932

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How Gothic Influences and Eidetic Imagery in Eight Color Plates and Key Poems by William Blake Figuratively Unite Body and Soul by Dramatizing the Visionary Imagination by Honor Penelope Vallor Pdf

Author : Gary Richard Thompson
Publisher : [Pullman] : Washington State University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015009346183

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The Gothic Imagination by Gary Richard Thompson Pdf

Author : Glennis Byron,Dale Townshend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135053055

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The Gothic World by Glennis Byron,Dale Townshend Pdf

The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own ‘World’.

Author : Robert I. Lublin,Elizabeth A. Fay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350351578

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The Afterlives of Frankenstein by Robert I. Lublin,Elizabeth A. Fay Pdf

An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations in film, comics, theatre, art, video-games and more, to illuminate how the novel's myth has evolved in the two centuries since its publication. Divided into four sections, The Afterlives of Frankenstein considers the cultural dialogues Mary Shelley's novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the extraordinary examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become something to play with, a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns. Bringing together popular interventions that riff off Shelley's major themes, chapters survey such works as Frankenstein in Baghdad, Bob Dylan's recent “My Own Version of You”, the graphic novel series Destroyer with its Black cast of characters, Jane Louden's The Mummy!, the first Japanese translation of Frankenstein, “The New Creator”, the iconic Frankenstein mask and Kenneth Brannagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein film. A deep-dive into the crevasses of Frankenstein adaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley's original.

Author : Osbert Burdett
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783107773

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William Blake by Osbert Burdett Pdf

Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake’s work is made up of several elements – Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare – to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates him to the great classical movement inspired by Winckelmann and propagated by David. This is the sole point of contact discernible between the classicism of David and English art, though furtive and indirect. Blake is the most mystic of the English painters, perhaps the only true mystic. He was ingenious in his inner imagination, and his interpretations of ancient and modern poets reveal as true and candid a spirit as the title of his first work – poems he composed, illustrated and set to music, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Later he achieved grandeur, power and profundity, especially in certain tempera paintings. Just like others, Blake was considered an eccentric by most of his contemporaries, until his genius was recognised in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487508203

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Reception of Northrop Frye by Anonim Pdf

The Reception of Northrup Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye's diminishing status as an important critical voice.

Author : Lucy Cogan,Michelle O'Connell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031133633

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Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century by Lucy Cogan,Michelle O'Connell Pdf

This book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the “limit cases” regarding human existence that medicine continuously uncovered as it stretched the boundaries of knowledge. These cases cast troubling and distorted shadows on the culture, throwing into relief the values, vested interests, and power relations regarding the construction of embodied life and consciousness that underpinned the understanding of what it was to be alive in the long nineteenth century. Ranging over a period from the mid-eighteenth century through to the first decade of the twentieth century—an era that has been called the ‘Age of Science’—the essays collected here consider the cultural ripple effects of those previously unimaginable revolutions in science and medicine on humanity’s understanding of being.

Author : Naomi Billingsley
Publisher : T&T Clark
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 056769402X

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The Visionary Art of William Blake by Naomi Billingsley Pdf

William Blake (1757-1827) is considered one of the most singular and brilliant talents that England has ever produced. Celebrated now for the originality of his thinking, painting and verse, he shocked contemporaries by rejecting all forms of organized worship even while adhering to the truth of the Bible. But how did he come to equate Christianity with art? How did he use images and paint to express those radical and prophetic ideas about religion which he came in time to believe? And why did he conceive of Christ himself as an artist: in fact, as the artist, par excellence? These are among the questions which Naomi Billingsley explores in her subtle and wide-ranging new study in art, religion and the history of ideas. Suggesting that Blake expresses through his representations of Jesus a truly distinctive theology of art, and offering detailed readings of Blake's paintings and biblical commentary, she argues that her subject thought of Christ as an artist-archetype. Blake's is thus a distinctively 'Romantic' vision of art in which both the artist and his saviour fundamentally change the way that the world is perceived. In drawing upon contemporaneous religious writings and artistic representations of similar subjects, this book presents an historically grounded account of Blake's oeuvre. It offers new interpretations of his individual works while also identifying textual and pictorial sources that previously have been overlooked. It will have strong interdisciplinary appeal: to intellectual historians; scholars and students of religion and literature; art historians; and all those interested in the vivid figural articulation of a uniquely English theological radicalism.