Knight of the Living Dead: William Blake and the Problem of OntologySusquehanna University Press, 2000 - 180 pàgines "In Knight of the Living Dead, Kathleen Lundeen investigates Blake's work in the context of his spiritualistic practices, and shows how he attempts to create a discourse that circumvents the binary of natural and arbitrary signs. Her examination of his word-image art demonstrates that, in Blake's view, what we recognize as word or image depends upon our epistemological orientation, just as what we term "matter" or "spirit" is determined by our state of perception. It further shows how Blake critiques textual theory in both his songs and prophecies by stabilizing the two sets of parameters that are used to define and classify signs: the general and particular, and the literal and figurative. Moreover, she argues, Blake provides an epistemological alternative to empiricism and rationalism in his poetry and art. Through verbal and visual experiments he defies the logic that is rooted in sense perception and reason, and he attempts through those experiments to return textuality to a divinely literal condition. By treating spiritualism as an aesthetic practice and art as an otherworldly communication, he undermines the institutionalized boundaries in art and life, and presents a formidable challenge to the whole matter/spirit dualism upon which Western culture is based."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... artistic expression that produces initial dissonance in a culture is in time accommodated by the public imagination and sit- uated on an aesthetic continuum . With the exception of Songs of Innocence and of Experience , most of Blake's ...
... artistic expression that produces initial dissonance in a culture is in time accommodated by the public imagination and sit- uated on an aesthetic continuum . With the exception of Songs of Innocence and of Experience , most of Blake's ...
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... artistic roots in well - established traditions overlooked the influence of belief systems unsanctioned by the social and political institutions of his day . Thompson argues that Blake is more closely allied with Dissenters than ...
... artistic roots in well - established traditions overlooked the influence of belief systems unsanctioned by the social and political institutions of his day . Thompson argues that Blake is more closely allied with Dissenters than ...
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... artistic paternity remains elusive . Whether Blake's distinctive voice can ever be explained as a product of cultural forces is uncertain . Nevertheless , historical studies of his textuality underscore the density of belief systems in ...
... artistic paternity remains elusive . Whether Blake's distinctive voice can ever be explained as a product of cultural forces is uncertain . Nevertheless , historical studies of his textuality underscore the density of belief systems in ...
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... artistic practices to his self - defined spiritualistic practices , and examine the intimate interaction between them . Though Blake's paranormal experiences raised many an eigh- teenth - century eyebrow , they were not singular ...
... artistic practices to his self - defined spiritualistic practices , and examine the intimate interaction between them . Though Blake's paranormal experiences raised many an eigh- teenth - century eyebrow , they were not singular ...
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Border Skirmishes in Blakes WordImage Art | 21 |
Urizen Milton and the Problem of Forged Identity | 59 |
Disappearing Boundaries in Prophetic Geography America Europe Jerusalem | 99 |
Eluding the Border Patrol through Transparent Art | 138 |
Notes | 164 |
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