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Author | : G. A. Rosso |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780838752401 |
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"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 | : George Anthony Rosso |
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Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1904 |
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Download The Prophetic Books of William Blake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Brenda Schwabacher Webster |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 1983-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349062995 |
Download Blake's Prophetic Psychology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : E. R. MacLagan |
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Release | : 1979-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780849535109 |
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Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780691001456 |
Download The Continental Prophecies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The last volumes in the series of William Blake's Illuminated Books reveal the writer and artist as a prophet driven by a sense of apocalyptic urgency. Blake conceived and executed The Continental Prophecies and The Urizen Books in the early 1790s, capturing the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the American and French revolutions. Here, for the first time, the general reader will encounter Blake's most intense vision in reproductions that do justice to the originals, accompanied by texts, comprehensive notes and commentaries, and detailed interpretations of the designs. The Continental Prophecies, which comprises "America," "Europe," and "The Song of Los," presents Blake's critical reckoning with the history of his own times. Marked by a particularly close integration of word and image, the books form a mythical plot from historical events and criticize the intricate structure of social oppression that the author attributes to organized state religion. Each of the three books attempts to point a way toward the process of millennial liberation. These volumes complete the six-part series of William Blake's Illuminated Books, including Jerusalem, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (now available in paperback), The Early Illuminated Books, and Milton, A Poem, all published by Princeton University Press.
Author | : Margaret Rudd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Download Organiz'd Innocence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Michael Ferber |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1400857643 |
Download The Social Vision of William Blake Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This fresh look at the social and political themes of Blake's poetry shows that he was a phenomenologist of liberation," who contested the dominant ideology of his time and who still speaks passionately to our fears and hopes. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : William Blake |
Publisher | : Everyman |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Download Poems and Prophecies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offers a selection of the poet's work, including all the lyrics and the important prophetic books.
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.