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Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download Blake's Apocalypse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
William Blake was the messiah of the imagination; in poem after poem he reached the everlasting gospel of the intellect and will; a once-in-a-lifetime "original", he lived and died virtually unknown, unhonored. Since the 20th century, however, he's become the grand prix of the illuminati, a legendary figure whose message to mankind is full of, for some, visionary greatness, for others, mystical gibberish. Harold Bloom, one of Yale's up-and-coming faculty men, clearly belongs with the rooters, and his critique, an elaborate, eminently enthusiastic examination of all the verse, but most especially Milton, Jerusalem and The Four Zoas, should prove a sell-out with Blake scholars and fans. According to Bloom, Blake was insistently apocalyptic rather than biblically prophetic; his tapestry melded the symbolic lands of Beulah and Eden, the transformation of Innocence and Experience, the fall and resurrection of Man, the union of Good and Evil, those creative Contraries.
Author | : Cyril O'Regan |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791489507 |
Download Gnostic Apocalypse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic Apocalypse focuses on the way Boehme's thought repeats and surpasses post-reformation Lutheran thinking, deploys and subverts the commitments of medieval mysticism, realizes the speculative thrust of Renaissance alchemy, is open to esoteric discourses such as the Kabbalah, and articulates a dynamic metaphysics. This book critically assesses the striking claim made in the nineteenth century that Boehme's visionary discourse represents within the confines of specifically Protestant thought nothing less than the return of ancient Gnosis. Although the grounds adduced on behalf of the "Gnostic return" claim in the nineteenth century are dismissed as questionable, O'Regan shows that the fundamental intuition is correct. Boehme's visionary discourse does represent a return of Gnosticism in the modern period, and in this lies its fundamental claim to our contemporary philosophical, theological, and literary attention.
Author | : Kathryn S. Freeman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791432976 |
Download Blake's Nostos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Establishes Blake's controversial, unfinished epic, The Four Zoas, as the culmination of his mythos.
Author | : John B. Beer |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Visions in art |
ISBN | : |
Download Blake's Visionary Universe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas J. J. Altizer |
Publisher | : East Lansing, Michigan State U. P |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download The New Apocalypse: the Radical Christian Vision of William Blake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Dellamora |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780812215588 |
Download Postmodern Apocalypse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth, to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, the sense of apocalypse is very much with us. In Postmodern Apocalypse, Richard Dellamora and his contributors examine apocalypse in works by late twentieth-century writers, filmmakers, and critics.
Author | : G. A. Rosso |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838752401 |
Download Blake's Prophetic Workshop Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"While William Blake's The Four Zoas may be fascinating to Blake scholars, it presents formidable obstacles to even the most ardent Romanticist, let alone interested critics or the general reader. Blake's Prophetic Workshop attempts to clear some of these obstacles by studying the work from a variety of critical perspectives. It assumes some familiarity with Blake's prophecies, but is cast between the introductory and advanced levels of the two previous books published on the poem." "Although the major reading strategy is close textual analysis, the poem is marked by various cultural and social contexts that need elucidation. Chapters alternate between sketching these contexts and traditions and providing detailed readings within these contexts. The first chapters give a reception history of the work and set it within the tradition of the eighteenth-century "long poem," namely Thomson's Seasons, Pope's An Essay on Man, and Young's Night Thoughts, texts that Blake critiques as Newtonian substitutions of Miltonic prophecy. Chapter three tests these assertions by reading the poem's creation narratives in terms of Anglican-Dissenting apologetics. The final chapters sift the cultural contexts that shape Blake's use of biblical typology and scrutinize several continental philosophies of history, and how they encroach on The Four Zoas, as well as situate the poem in the apocalyptic moment of the 1790s." "While a pluralist approach is followed, author George Anthony Rosso, Jr., subscribes to a fundamentally historical theory that places The Four Zoas in the broad and eclectic tradition of English poetic prophecy. Aware of recent critiques of "the prophetic," Rosso pursues his theory with flexibility and tolerance for other viewpoints." "An appendix provides a useful commentary on the relations between the text and certain designs, drawings, and sketches in the manuscript. Its aim is to show that Blake repeats key images in various frames to provide a sense of context and development, and that the drawings expose what the narrative represses, often in graphic sexual detail. Rosso presents a Blake who is both deadly serious and disarmingly ironic about the relevance of prophecy in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Thomas J. J. Altizer |
Publisher | : The Davies Group, Publishers |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2000-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781888570564 |
Download The New Apocalypse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is the thesis of The New Apocalypse that William Blake is the most original prophet & seer in the history of Christendom, & that an understanding of his revolutionary work demands a new form of theological thinking. Unlike the epic poetry of Dante & Milton, Blake's prophetic poetry both transcends & negates its roots in the Christian tradition: it unveils a Jesus who is the totality of both God & man, & envisions a cosmic history reflecting a movement from Fall to Apocalypse. This study is an attempt to enter the world of Blake's vision, to appropriate from that vision a theological form that will be relevant to our world & to do so on the basis of dialectical understanding of theology. Hegel is chosen as a guide to the dialectical ground & meaning of Blake's vision in the belief that Hegel's dialectical "system" is a far more effective guide to Blake's vsionary world than are the traditional forms of Christian theology & mysticism. Thomas J. J. Altizer is a native of Charleston, West Virginia. He took his PhD at the University of Chicago & is presently Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Altizer can be characterized as the most radical theologian of our age, the only theologian who has constructed a full & comprehensive radical theology.
Author | : Paul Youngquist |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271039612 |
Download Madness and Blake's Myth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jackie DiSalvo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2015-08-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317381386 |
Download Blake, Politics, and History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.