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Blake's Agitation

Author : Steven Goldsmith
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408066
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Blake's Agitation written by Steven Goldsmith and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Romantic period, the critical thinker's enthusiasm has served to substantiate his or her agency in the world. Blake’s Agitation is a thorough and engaging reflection on the dynamic, forward-moving, and active nature of critical thought. Steven Goldsmith investigates the modern notion that there’s a fiery feeling in critical thought, a form of emotion that gives authentic criticism the potential to go beyond interpreting the world. By arousing this critical excitement in readers and practitioners, theoretical writing has the power to alter the course of history, even when the only evidence of its impact is the emotion it arouses. Goldsmith identifies William Blake as a paradigmatic example of a socially critical writer who is moved by enthusiasm and whose work, in turn, inspires enthusiasm in his readers. He traces the particular feeling of engaged, dynamic urgency that characterizes criticism as a mode of action in Blake’s own work, in Blake scholarship, and in recent theoretical writings that identify the heightened affect of critical thought with the potential for genuine historical change. Within each of these horizons, the critical thinker’s enthusiasm serves to substantiate his or her agency in the world, supplying immediate, embodied evidence that criticism is not one thought-form among many but an action of consequence, accessing or even enabling the conditions of new possibility necessary for historical transformation to occur. The resulting picture of the emotional agency of criticism opens up a new angle on Blake’s literary and visual legacy and offers a vivid interrogation of the practical potential of theoretical discourse.

Blake's Agitation

Author : Steven Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Blake's Agitation written by Steven Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

William Blake

Author : Tilottama Rajan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487534434
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book William Blake written by Tilottama Rajan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including the revolution in the life sciences, Blake’s imagination – often prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive – offers an inside view of such tumultuous and catastrophic change. A hybrid of text and image, Blake’s writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake’s unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake’s output from the shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in William Blake: Modernity and Disaster predict the discontents of modernity by reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history. His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a different future, or any future at all.

Blake's 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre

Author : Susanne M. Sklar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191619140
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Blake's 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre written by Susanne M. Sklar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.' Blake's avowed intention in constructing the work was to move readers from a solely rational way of being (called Ulro) to one that is highly imaginative (called Eden/Eternity), with each word chosen to suit 'the mouth of a true Orator.' Rational interpretation is of limited use when reading this multifaceted epic and its non-linear structure presents a perennial challenge for readers. Susanne Sklar engages with the interpretive challenges of Jerusalem by considering it as a piece of visionary theatre —an imaginative performance in which characters, settings, and imagery are not confined by mundane space and time— allowing readers to find coherence within its complexities. With his characters, Blake's readers can participate imaginatively in what Blake calls 'the Divine Body, the Saviour's Kingdom,' a way of being in which all things interconnect: spiritually, ecologically, socially, and erotically. Imaginatively engaging with Jerusalem involves close textual reading and analysis. The first part of this book discusses the notion of visionary theatre, and the theological, literary, and historical antecedents of Jerusalem's imagery, characters, and settings. Particular attention is paid to the theological context of Blake's Jesus ('the Divine Body'), and Jerusalem, the heroine of his poem. This prepares the ground for a scene-by-scene commentary of the entire illuminated work. Jerusalem tells the story of Albion's fall, many rescue attempts, escalating violence and oppression, and a surprising apocalypse —in which all living things, awakening, are transfigured in ferocious forgiveness.

William Blake's Gothic imagination

Author : Chris Bundock
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121964
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book William Blake's Gothic imagination written by Chris Bundock and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.

Sweet Science

Author : Amanda Jo Goldstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648470X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Science written by Amanda Jo Goldstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: "sweet science" -- Blake's mundane egg: epigenesis and milieux -- Equivocal life: Goethe's journals on morphology -- Tender semiosis: reading Goethe with Lucretius and Paul de Man -- Growing old together: Lucretian materialism in Shelley's The triumph of life -- A natural history of violence: allegory and atomism in Shelley's The mask of anarchy -- Coda: old materialism, or romantic Marx

Envisioning Anxiety in William Blake's Europe

Author : Stacy W. Garfinkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Anxiety in William Blake's Europe written by Stacy W. Garfinkel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading William Blake

Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521763037
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Reading William Blake written by Saree Makdisi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.

Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment

Author : David Fallon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137390352
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment written by David Fallon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. It reevaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myth, religion, and politics, from The French Revolution to Jerusalem and The Laocoön. The book combines careful attention to cultural and historical contexts with close readings of the texts and designs, providing an innovative account of Blake’s creative transformations of Enlightenment, classical, and Christian thought.

William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Author : Sarah Haggarty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137382457
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience written by Sarah Haggarty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: - Explains the unique development of Songs as an illuminated book - Considers the earliest reactions to the text during Blake's lifetime, and his gathering posthumous reputation in the nineteenth century - Explores modern critical approaches and recent debates - Discusses key topics that have been of abiding interest to critics, including the relationship between text and image in Blake's 'composite art' Insightful and stimulating, this introductory guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to navigate their way through the mass of criticism surrounding Blake's most widely-studied work.

Futures of Enlightenment Poetry

Author : Dustin D. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198857799
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Futures of Enlightenment Poetry written by Dustin D. Stewart and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the creative work of writers and theologians who used their poetic writings as a means to explore and envisage scenarios of embodiment and existence that extended to life after bodily death.

Domestic Georgic

Author : Katie Kadue
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679752X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Domestic Georgic written by Katie Kadue and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-09-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with groundbreaking literary feats—including Michel de Montaigne and John Milton—conceived of their writing in surprisingly modest and domestic terms. In contrast to the monumental ambitions associated with the literature of the age, and picking up an undercurrent of Virgil’s Georgics, poetic labor of the Renaissance emerges here as often aligned with so-called women’s work. Kadue reveals how male authors’ engagements with a feminized georgic mode became central to their conceptions of what literature is and could be. This other georgic strain in literature shared the same primary concern as housekeeping: the necessity of constant, almost invisible labor to keep the things of the world intact. Domestic Georgic brings into focus a conception of literary—as well as scholarly and critical—labor not as a striving for originality and fame but as a form of maintenance work that aims at preserving individual and collective life.

Systems of Life

Author : Richard A. Barney
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823281736
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Systems of Life written by Richard A. Barney and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid– eighteenth to the mid–nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other biological registers, had an impact on the Enlightenment project of thinking politics and economics as a joint enterprise. The volume’s contributors consider politics, economics, and the biological as distinct, semi-autonomous spheres whose various combinations required inventive, sometimes incomplete, acts of conceptual mediation, philosophical negotiation, disciplinary intervention, or aesthetic representation.

Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism

Author : Christopher Bundock
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442630728
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism written by Christopher Bundock and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic writers invoked prophecy throughout their work. However, the failure of prophecy to materialize didn’t deter them. Why then do Romantic writers repeatedly invoke prophecy when it never works? The answer to this question is at the heart of Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism. In this remarkably erudite work, Christopher Bundock argues that the repeated failure of prophecy in Romantic thought is creative and enables a renewable potential for expression across disciplines. By focusing on new readings of canonical Romantic authors as well as their more obscure works, Bundock makes a bold intervention into major concepts such as Romantic imagination, historicity, and mediation. Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism glides across Kant’s Swedenborgian dreams to Mary Shelley’s Last Man and reveals how Romanticism reinvents history by turning prophecy inside out.

The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism

Author : Mark Canuel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192648470
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism written by Mark Canuel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the novelists, poets, and political theorists examined in this book reimagined politically progressive thinking in multiple genres. While embracing a commitment to optimistic improvement—increasing freedom, equality, and protection from injury—they also cultivated increasingly visible and volatile energies of religious and political dissent. Earlier narratives of progress tended not only to edit and fictionalize history but also to agglomerate different modes of knowledge and practice in their quest to describe and prescribe uniform cultural improvement. But romantic writers seize on internal division and take it less as an occasion for anxiety, exclusion, or erasure, and more as an impetus to rethink the groundwork of progress itself. Political entities, from Percy Shelley's plans for political reform to Charlotte Smith's motley associations of strangers in The Banished Man, are progressive because they advance some version of collective utility or common good. But they simultaneously stake a claim to progress only insofar as they paradoxically solicit contending vantage points on the criteria for the very public benefit which they passionately pursue. The "majestic edifices" of Wordsworth's imagined university in The Prelude embrace members who are "republican or pious," not to mention the recalcitrant "enthusiast" who is the poet himself.

Against the Uprooted Word

Author : Tristram Wolff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150363356X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Against the Uprooted Word written by Tristram Wolff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers including Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Henry David Thoreau offer a radical chronopolitics in reaction to the "uprooted word," or the formal analytic used to classify languages in progressive time according to a primitivist timeline of history and a hierarchy of civilization. Before the bad naturalisms of nineteenth-century race science could harden language into place as a metric of social difference, poets and thinkers try to soften, thicken, deepen, and dissolve it. This naturalizing tendency makes language more difficult to uproot from its active formation in the lives of its speakers. And its "gray romanticism" simultaneously gives language different kinds of time—most strikingly, the deep time of geologic form—to forestall the hardening of time into progress. Reorienting romantic studies to consider colonialism's pervasive effects on theories of language origin, Wolff shows us the ambivalent position of romantics in this history. His reparative reading makes visible language's ability to reimagine social forms.

Out of the Primitive

Author : Robert Ames Bennet
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Primitive written by Robert Ames Bennet and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Out of the Primitive' is an adventure novel by the author Robert Ames Bennet. The book's journey starts in the southeastern part of Africa. The Right Honorable the Earl of Avondale, Lord James is aboard a steamer on the Zambezi River looking for the missing steam ship 'Impala' and its survivors, if any. But when they get to the wreck, he only manages to rescue his friend Thomas Blake and the Lady Genevieve. Now both men are attracted to the lady and they wager as to who between them she will fall for...