Blake's Drama

Theatre, Performance and Identity in the Illuminated Books
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-47810-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3309 g

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piccitto, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Theatre of the Illuminated Books 2. Spectatorial Entrances: Where Brechtian Alienation Meets Medieval Presence 3. Staging Urizen: The Melodrama of Identity Formation 4. The Performativity of Inspiration: Action and Identity in Milton Conclusion Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diane Piccitto holds a PhD from the University of Western Ontario. Before moving to London, UK, as an independent scholar, she was a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Zurich.