Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas

ISBN-13: 9780773516823 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 248 str.

John B. Pierce

Opis

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.