Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 575 g
Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas
Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 575 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-818719-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
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Weitere Infos & Material
- List of Plates
- Key to References
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Rhetoric of Transcendence
- 2: Reason's heaven and the body's hell
- Falling into a World of Los(s)
- 4: Urizen's world of Los(s)
- 5: A cacophony of voices
- 6: Building a Swedenborgian heaven
- Building the Fallen World
- Reason's Struggle against the Flesh
- 9: Flesh and spirit
- 10: A sensitive body
- The End and the Beginning of History
- 12: The Last Judgment
- Bibliography
- Index
