Flexible Design
Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or the Four Zoas
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
245 pages
978-0-7735-6698-9 (ISBN)
Description
Using the idea of a "flexible design," John Pierce examines the ways in which Blake''s mythology and his poem possess a flexibility that allows for significant change to characters, symbols, and poetic techniques within a previously constructed framework. Pierce traces how, in the process of revision, Blake experimented with characterization, increased the importance of Christian symbolism, and developed a mode of narrative presentation controlled less by chronological sequence than by the use of thematic juxtaposition and typology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
United States
File size
12,19 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-6698-9 (9780773566989)
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05/1998
Queen's School of Policy Studies
€154.50
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Textual Note
- Preface
- Illustrations
- Introduction: Manuscript and Poetics
- PART ONE: NARRATIVE
- 1 Beginnings and Creation
- 2 Experiments in Structure
- PART TWO: CHARACTER
- 3 Recasting the Copperplate
- 4 Completing the Four Zoas
- 5 The Revelations of Rahab
- 6 Conclusion: Revisionary Poetics
- APPENDICES
- A: The Copperplate Text of Vala
- B: Stages in the Development of Nights VII through IX of Vala or The Four Zoas
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
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- W
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