William Blake: Contemporary Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780333545973 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 221 str.

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This New Casebook contains ten essays written about Blake's poetry since 1970 selected to show the diversity of Blake criticism during the last twenty years and the ways in which contemporary critical theories open up new readings of his work. Essays representative of Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, feminist and new historicist criticism are included. David Punter's Introduction places these in the context of recent developments in critical theory and shows how today's student can best engage with Blake's complex and rewarding work.

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Acknowledgements General Editors' Preface Abbreviations Introduction.- D.Punter Orc as a Fiery Paradigm of Poetic Torsion.- G.Quasha Babylon Revisited, or The Story of Luvah and Vala.- J.Hagstrum Angels out of the Sun: Art, Religion and Politics in Blake's America.- D.E.James Blake in the Chains of Being.- N.Hilton Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion: Revising an Interpretive Tradition.- L.Haigwood Repeating the Same Dull Round.- G.Edwards Visible Language: Blake's Wond'rous Art of Writing.- W.J.T.Mitchell Reading Blake and Derrida: Our Caesars Neither Praised nor Buried.- D.Simpson Representations of Revolution: From The French Revolution to The Four Zoas.- D.Aers Blake, Women and Sexuality.- B.Webster Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index.