William Blake And The Language Of Adam
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William Blake And The Language Of Adam
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Author : Robert N. Essick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1989
William Blake And The Language Of Adam written by Robert N. Essick and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Setting William Blake's language concepts and practices within the broad context of linguistic history, this book offers a new perspective on his poetry. Essick first looks in detail at four of Blake's paintings and addresses some basic questions in semiotic theory based on the history of the "motivated sign" idea from Plato to Wilhelm von Humboldt. Converting this background into a hermeneutic, he then demonstrates Blake's contributions to the mystical tradition and his critique of 18th-century linguistic doctrines, presenting a parodic deconstruction of rationalist sign theory in The Book of Urizen. Finally, Essick looks at Blake's compositional practices, his development of these into a transactional view of language, and the apocalyptic reordering of the relationship between meaning and being in Jerusalem.
Creating States
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Author : Angela Esterhammer
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Creating States written by Angela Esterhammer and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of the language of visionary poetry, making use of the principles of speech-act philosophy to analyze the creative properties of utterance from the Bible to the work of Milton and Blake.
Knight Of The Living Dead
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Author : Kathleen Lundeen
language : en
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 2000
Knight Of The Living Dead written by Kathleen Lundeen and has been published by Susquehanna University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In Knight of the Living Dead, Kathleen Lundeen investigates Blake's work in the context of his spiritualistic practices, and shows how he attempts to create a discourse that circumvents the binary of natural and arbitrary signs. Her examination of his word-image art demonstrates that, in Blake's view, what we recognize as word or image depends upon our epistemological orientation, just as what we term "matter" or "spirit" is determined by our state of perception. It further shows how Blake critiques textual theory in both his songs and prophecies by stabilizing the two sets of parameters that are used to define and classify signs: the general and particular, and the literal and figurative. Moreover, she argues, Blake provides an epistemological alternative to empiricism and rationalism in his poetry and art. Through verbal and visual experiments he defies the logic that is rooted in sense perception and reason, and he attempts through those experiments to return textuality to a divinely literal condition. By treating spiritualism as an aesthetic practice and art as an otherworldly communication, he undermines the institutionalized boundaries in art and life, and presents a formidable challenge to the whole matter/spirit dualism upon which Western culture is based."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Glorious Incomprehensible
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Author : Sheila A. Spector
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2001
Glorious Incomprehensible written by Sheila A. Spector and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
Traces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still completing 'Jerusalem'.
William Blake S Comic Vision
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Author : N. Rawlinson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-11-05
William Blake S Comic Vision written by N. Rawlinson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Blake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority. But, for the eighteenth century, comedy played a pivotal role in debates on aesthetics, education, spirituality and morality. This exciting new study blends a close reading of Blake's early work with fascinating historical research to demonstrate that the comic was an essential component of Blake's artistic Vision.
Lessons Of Romanticism
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Author : Thomas Pfau
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1998
Lessons Of Romanticism written by Thomas Pfau and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
Explores how the Romantic period gave birth to a seductive cognitive cultural program that retains far reaching implications for contemporary views on individuality and relationships between the individual and larger groups of identification. Established
William Blake And The Myths Of Britain
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Author : J. Whittaker
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1999-06-03
William Blake And The Myths Of Britain written by J. Whittaker and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
William Blake and the Myths of Britain is the first full-length study of Blake's use of British mythology and history. From Atlantis to the Deists of the Napoleonic Wars, this book addresses why the eighteenth century saw a revival of interest in the legends of the British Isles and how Blake applied these in his extraordinary prophetic histories of the giant Albion, revitalising myths of the Druids and Joseph of Arimathea bringing Christ to Albion.
A Guide To The Cosmology Of William Blake
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Author : Kathryn S. Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-12-01
A Guide To The Cosmology Of William Blake written by Kathryn S. Freeman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
William Blake And The Art Of Engraving
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Author : Mei-Ying Sung
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
William Blake And The Art Of Engraving written by Mei-Ying Sung and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Art categories.
Sung closely examines William Blake’s extant engraved copper plates and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Sung suggests that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. This belies the Romantic ideal that the acts of conception and execution are simultaneous in the creative process.
Reading William Blake
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Author : S. Behrendt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1992-03-30
Reading William Blake written by S. Behrendt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-03-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
William Blake's illuminated poems challenge their readers to participate fully in a highly interactive process of reading. The complex interaction of their verbal and visual texts forces the involved reader to assume greater responsibility than usual for formulating meaning. This book examines some of the ways in which Blake's illuminated poems subvert the customary authority of texts and force readers to reassess both their expectations about reading and their customary responses to words and visual images alike.