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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... spirits have by and large embarrassed his admirers , many of whom have chosen to look the other way . Blake's liberal ex ... spirit " is determined by our ( Continued on back flap ) of the Living Dead William Blake and the Problem of.
... spirits have by and large embarrassed his admirers , many of whom have chosen to look the other way . Blake's liberal ex ... spirit " is determined by our ( Continued on back flap ) of the Living Dead William Blake and the Problem of.
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... spirits have by and large embarrassed his admirers , many of whom have chosen to look the other way . Blake's liberal experi- ments in mediumship , nevertheless , raise an intriguing question : is there a correlation between his textual ...
... spirits have by and large embarrassed his admirers , many of whom have chosen to look the other way . Blake's liberal experi- ments in mediumship , nevertheless , raise an intriguing question : is there a correlation between his textual ...
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... spirit dialectic ( 71 ) . Toward the end of his study , Thompson concedes the unlike- lihood of providing a full explanation of Blake's inner world : " If one may be wrong to look for a coherent intellectual system [ in Blake's work ] ...
... spirit dialectic ( 71 ) . Toward the end of his study , Thompson concedes the unlike- lihood of providing a full explanation of Blake's inner world : " If one may be wrong to look for a coherent intellectual system [ in Blake's work ] ...
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... ontological differences be- tween text and design is linked to his challenge to the whole mat- ter / spirit dualism upon which Western culture is based . Knight of the Living Dead 1 Border Skirmishes in Blake's INTRODUCTION 17.
... ontological differences be- tween text and design is linked to his challenge to the whole mat- ter / spirit dualism upon which Western culture is based . Knight of the Living Dead 1 Border Skirmishes in Blake's INTRODUCTION 17.
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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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