Thinking Through Blake
Essays in Literary Contrariety
Published on 26. March 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-0-7864-7958-0 (ISBN)
Description
A seminal figure in Romantic poetry and visual arts, William Blake continues to influence modern literary criticism. In this book, Blake scholar Hazard Adams presents a selection of essays that span his long career exploring the work and thought of the groundbreaking artist. Topics range from the symbolic form in Blake's poem Jerusalem, the world view of Blake in relation to cultural policy and the notion of contrariety in Blake's writings to the relation of Chinese literary thought to that of the West, the critical work of Northrop Frye and Murray Krieger and the cultural and academic status of the humanities. The essays chart the evolution of Adams' own neo-Blakean literary thought over the past four decades, chronicling an effort to seek not merely a method but a philosophical base for the practice of literary criticism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-7958-0 (9780786479580)
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Person
The late Hazard Adams was professor emeritus at the University of Washington's department of comparative literature. He was known internationally as a scholar of William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Joyce Cary, and the history of criticism. He lived in Shelton, Washington.
Content
Table of Contents
Notes on the Text viii
Introduction, Which Could Be a Conclusion
Blake, Jerusalem, and Symbolic Form (1975)
Contemporary Ideas of Literature: Terrible Beauty or Rough Beast? (1977)
Essay on Frye (1991)
Reynolds, Vico, Blackwell, Blake: The Fate of Allegory (1993)
The -World-View of William Blake in Relation to Cultural Policy (1993)
Conference 2: Chinese and -Japanese-American Literary Relations (1994)
Is (Was) There No Tradition of Defense of Poetry in Chinese Culture? Why Has There Had to Be One in the West? (1995)
Four Problems (Among Many) for Humanistic Thought (1995)
"Literature" and the Visionary Tradition (1995)
"Literature" into "Ecriture"? (1995)
"An Antithetical Turn" (1996)
Ekphrasis Revisited, or Antitheticality Reconstructed (2000)
Quest and Cycle (2005)
Origin(ality) (2007)
The Marriage of Imagination and Intellect (2013)
Chapter Notes
Index
Notes on the Text viii
Introduction, Which Could Be a Conclusion
Blake, Jerusalem, and Symbolic Form (1975)
Contemporary Ideas of Literature: Terrible Beauty or Rough Beast? (1977)
Essay on Frye (1991)
Reynolds, Vico, Blackwell, Blake: The Fate of Allegory (1993)
The -World-View of William Blake in Relation to Cultural Policy (1993)
Conference 2: Chinese and -Japanese-American Literary Relations (1994)
Is (Was) There No Tradition of Defense of Poetry in Chinese Culture? Why Has There Had to Be One in the West? (1995)
Four Problems (Among Many) for Humanistic Thought (1995)
"Literature" and the Visionary Tradition (1995)
"Literature" into "Ecriture"? (1995)
"An Antithetical Turn" (1996)
Ekphrasis Revisited, or Antitheticality Reconstructed (2000)
Quest and Cycle (2005)
Origin(ality) (2007)
The Marriage of Imagination and Intellect (2013)
Chapter Notes
Index