Blake's Prophetic Psychology
Author | : Brenda Schwabacher Webster |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1983-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349062995 |
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Author | : Brenda Schwabacher Webster |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1983-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349062995 |
Author | : Brenda S. Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820306582 |
Author | : Norman L. Enger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. A. Rosso |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838752401 |
"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 | : Emily S. Hamblen |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781425312039 |
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Author | : David Worrall |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031532546 |
Author | : Lucy Cogan |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2021-05-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030676889 |
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 | : Emily S. Hamblen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
From her study of Blake's prophetic books the author has evolved a theory with regard to his symbolism: that a system, a structural plan, based upon ancient scriptural source has been followed by the poet. "Just as Amy Lowell gave herself to the interpreting of Keats, Boswell to Johnson, Rolland to Beethoven, so Emily Hamblen has made this dedication to Blake at a time when such a study is most needed. In its scholarly integrity, its insight, its clarity & completeness, it is the fruit of many years of self-directed study."--NEW YORK TIMES.
Author | : L. A. Duncan-Johnstone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Mysticism in literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Purcell Witcutt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |