Blake's Critique of Transcendence
Love, Jealousy, and the Sublime in The Four Zoas
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 October 2000
- ISBN 9780198187196
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages388 pages
- Size 224x146x25 mm
- Weight 575 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp black and white plates 0
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Short description:
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 revises our understanding of Blake's relation to Swedenborg, Young, and Locke, and provides a new account of Blake's views on the body, imagination, sublimity, sexuality, and transcendence.
MoreLong description:
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.
A useful teaching tool ... it does allow for clarity, something to be viewed as premium in these notoriously difficult poems and Blake's twists and turns of perspective are rendered more manageable as a result ... one actually leaves Blake's Critique of Transcendence with a much stronger sense of what the poem is about.
Table of Contents:
List of Plates
Key to References
Abbreviations
Introduction
Blake, Blake criticism and the sublime
Reason's heaven and the body's hell
The birth of Los(s) from Tharmas
Urizen's world of Los(s)
A cacophony of voices
Building a Swedenborgian heaven
The elaboration of Los(s)
Urizen explores his dens
Flesh and spirit
A sensitive body
Death of the body / liberation of the spirit
The Last Judgment
Bibliography
Index
