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Author | : William Richey |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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In this breakthrough study, William Richey examines the mind of one of the most ambitious poet-thinkers of the Romantic era. Offering a new and stimulating survey that shows William Blake's aesthetic thought moving through "a sequence of sharp and sudden ruptures", Blake's Altering Aesthetic argues that Blake's aesthetic theory and practice were far more rooted in the specific circumstances of their historical moment than has generally been recognized. Focusing on Blake's shifting attitudes toward the classical and the Gothic, Richey approaches the poet from a fresh angle, claiming that no single aesthetic philosophy applies uniformly throughout Blake's career. Rather, the Blake that Richey traces is a highly self-critical individual who is constantly repudiating his once deeply held convictions and inverting his former positions. Thus, instead of seeing Blake's later anticlassicism as a natural or inevitable outgrowth of his youthful beliefs, Richey argues convincingly that the changes in his theory and practice derived from specific social, political, and biographical conditions that caused his thinking to veer in unpredictable and often surprising directions.
Author | : Chris Bundock |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-04-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526121964 |
Download William Blake's Gothic imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Morris Eaves |
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Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691039909 |
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The Description for this book, William Blake's Theory of Art, will be forthcoming.
Author | : Kathryn S. Freeman |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131718808X |
Download A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 Viscomi |
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Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Illustration of books |
ISBN | : 9780691069623 |
Download Blake and the Idea of the Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
His analysis of these procedures reveals that the Illuminated Books were produced in small editions and not, as is assumed, one copy at a time and by commission.
Author | : Jennifer Davis Michael |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838756461 |
Download Blake and the City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Though usually classified as a Romantic, Blake subverts and dissolves the binaries on which Romanticism turns: self and other, art and nature, country and city. Rather than reject the city outright like many of his contemporaries, Blake embraces it as the intricate workshop of human imagination. Each chapter of this book focuses on a specific text of Blake's that illustrates a particular conception of metaphorical embodiment of the city. These shifting metaphors emphasize the construction of all human environments and the need for imaginative labor to build and interpret them. This study seeks to bridge a gap between transcendent and historicist readings of Blake while at the same time challenging assumptions that still color our view of the city in the twenty-first century. Jennifer Davis Michael is Associate Professor of English at the University of the South.
Author | : Jackie DiSalvo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2015-08-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317381386 |
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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 | : George A. Jr. Rosso Jr. |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134820615 |
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This anthology of essays charts the work of William Blake - combining traditional and current historicist methods with a plurality of other approaches. While many essays here recuperate a radical Blake opposed to imperialism, slavery, and patriarchy, differences emerge over the nature of Blake's radicalism and his stance on revolution, violence, and democratic pluralism. Contributors may champion a Blake critical of patriarchal discourse and practice, but they remain cautious about Blake's "homocentric" solutions. In the "Blake and women" section, authors seek to reorient discussions by connecting Blake to historical issues concerning women, particularly domestic ideology and the idealised female of the conduct books.
Author | : Julia M. Wright |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Alienation (Social psychology) in literature |
ISBN | : 0821415190 |
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Despite his reputation as a staunch individualist and repeated attacks on institutions that constrain the individual's imagination, Julia Wright argues that William Blake rarely represents isolation positively and explores his concern with the kind of national community being established.
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Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Blake, William, 1757-1827 |
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Download The Visionary Hand : Essays for the Study of William Blake's Art and Aesthetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle