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Author | : J. Jones |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2010-05-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230106838 |
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Against a historical backdrop that includes eighteenth-century language theory, children's literature and education, debates on the French Revolution, Biblical interpretation, and print culture, Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation breaks new ground in the study of William Blake. This book analyzes the concept of self-annihilation in Blake s work, using the language theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to elucidate the ways in which his discourse was open to the viewpoints of others, undermines institutional authority, and restores dialogue. This book not only uncovers the importance of self-annihilation to Blake's thinking about language and communication, but it also develops its centrality to Blake's poetic practice.
Author | : J. Jones |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780230622357 |
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Against a historical backdrop that includes eighteenth-century language theory, children's literature and education, debates on the French Revolution, Biblical interpretation, and print culture, Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation breaks new ground in the study of William Blake. This book analyzes the concept of self-annihilation in Blake s work, using the language theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to elucidate the ways in which his discourse was open to the viewpoints of others, undermines institutional authority, and restores dialogue. This book not only uncovers the importance of self-annihilation to Blake's thinking about language and communication, but it also develops its centrality to Blake's poetic practice.
Author | : Diane Piccitto |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2014-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137378018 |
Download Blake's Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Joseph Monteyne |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2022-02-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1487527748 |
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Dark Media and the Materiality of Nothing -- Haunted Media -- Good Copies, Bad Copies -- Social Detritus, Paper Detritus.
Author | : Brian Russell Graham |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2022-11-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000811107 |
Download Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s and Blake’s poetry, this study provides an extended close reading of the speech acts of characters in Blake’s epic poem Milton. With the exception of what we learn about in the part of the poem known as the Bard’s Song, Blake’s Milton is dedicated to providing an incredibly detailed account of the numerous facets of the instant of time immediately prior to apocalypse, an instant in which Milton is the protagonist, and Blake himself a participant. This study explores how in the poem sacred history proceeds towards and through the instant by means of the speech act. This extended commentary is intended for not just Blake scholars but also the common reader who wishes to approach Blake’s brief epic for the first time. For scholars, this monograph offers a full account of a crucial but previously unexplored theme in the scholarship about Milton. For the common reader, it offers a comprehensive introduction to what Northrop Frye called ‘one of the most gigantic imaginative achievements in English poetry’.
Author | : Joshua Schouten de Jel |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030888886 |
Download Blake and Lucretius Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world – with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. By addressing this philosophical debt, this study sets out a threefold re-evaluation of Blake’s work: to clarify the classical stream of Blake’s philosophical heritage through Lucretius; to return Blake to his historical moment, a thirty-year period from 1790 to 1820 which has been described as the second Lucretian moment in England; and to employ a new exegetical model for understanding the phenomenological parameters and epistemological frameworks of Blake’s mythopoeia. Accordingly, it is revealed that Blake was not only aware of classical atomistic cosmogony and sense-based epistemology but that he systematically mapped postlapsarian existence onto an Epicurean framework.
Author | : Lucy Cogan |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2021-05-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030676889 |
Download Blake and the Failure of Prophecy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2011 |
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An illustrated quarterly.
Author | : Patrick McGee |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501320068 |
Download Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination explores the democratic thought of Spinoza and its relation to the thought of William Blake, Victor Hugo, and James Joyce. As a group, these visionaries articulate: a concept of power founded not on strength or might but on social cooperation; a principle of equality based not on the identity of individuals with one another but on the difference between any individual and the intellectual power of society as a whole; an understanding of thought as a process that operates between rather than within individuals; and a theory of infinite truth, something individuals only partially glimpse from their particular cultural situations. For Blake, God is the constellation of individual human beings, whose collective imagination produces revolutionary change. In Hugo's novel, Jean Valjean learns that the greatest truth about humanity lies in the sewer or among the lowest forms of social existence. For Joyce, Leopold and Molly Bloom are everybody and nobody, singular beings whose creative power and truth is beyond categories and social hierarchies.
Author | : Jason Whittaker |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1789142881 |
Download Divine Images Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.