Blake's Critique of Transcendence
Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas
Seiten
2000
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-818719-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-818719-6 (ISBN)
Examines in detail the relation between Blake's text and the visual designs in "The Four Zoas". The title uncovers a Blake deeply engaged with the cultural discourses of his time and is intended for students of Romanticism, and the history of sexuality and religion.
Blake's Critique of Transcendence is the first full-length book to examine in any detail or consistency the relation between Blake's text and the visual designs in The Four Zoas, one of the most important works in Blake's oeuvre. It uncovers a Blake deeply engaged with the cultural discourses of his time, in profound dialogue with Swedenborg, Locke, and Young. In the course of this conversation, Blake anatomizes a remarkable variety of cultural practices (including religion, science, and art) designed to achieve transcendence. He focuses in particular on the fate of the body in cultures of transcendence, developing perhaps the first theory of sexual sublimation. Blake's radical visual and verbal strategies in this poem are part of an attempt to defer the movement of transcendence, long enough for the reader to see the warring elements of the fallen world as the dismembered body of humanity.
Blake's Critique of Transcendence is the first full-length book to examine in any detail or consistency the relation between Blake's text and the visual designs in The Four Zoas, one of the most important works in Blake's oeuvre. It uncovers a Blake deeply engaged with the cultural discourses of his time, in profound dialogue with Swedenborg, Locke, and Young. In the course of this conversation, Blake anatomizes a remarkable variety of cultural practices (including religion, science, and art) designed to achieve transcendence. He focuses in particular on the fate of the body in cultures of transcendence, developing perhaps the first theory of sexual sublimation. Blake's radical visual and verbal strategies in this poem are part of an attempt to defer the movement of transcendence, long enough for the reader to see the warring elements of the fallen world as the dismembered body of humanity.
Peter Otto is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Melbourne
LIST OF PLATES; KEY TO REFERENCES; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1. BLAKE, BLAKE CRITICISM AND THE SUBLIME; 3. THE BIRTH OF LOS(S) FROM THARMAS; 7. THE ELABORATION OF LOS(S); 8. URIZEN EXPLORES HIS DENS; 11. DEATH OF THE BODY / LIBERATION OF THE SPIRIT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.11.2000 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 pp black and white plates |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 146 x 224 mm |
Gewicht | 575 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-818719-X / 019818719X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-818719-6 / 9780198187196 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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