William Blake: Modernity and Disaster - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1487506562 ISBN 13 : 9781487506568

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2020

Synopsis

William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including the revolution in the life sciences, Blake's imagination - often prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive - offers an inside view of such tumultuous and catastrophic change.

A hybrid of text and image, Blake's writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake's unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake's output from the shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in William Blake: Modernity and Disaster predict the discontents of modernity by reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history. His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a different future, or any future at all.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tilottama Rajan is a Canada Research Chair and distinguished university professor at Western University, the former Director of its Centre for Theory and Criticism, and the founder of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487506562
• ISBN 13: 9781487506568
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Rajan Tilottama, Faflak Joel
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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