Blake In Our Time

Author : Karen Mulhallen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442641517
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake in Our Time written by Karen Mulhallen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake in Our Time explores the work of British poet and artist William Blake in the context of the material culture of his era. In the 1960s, University of Toronto scholar G.E. Bentley, Jr almost singlehandedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the materiality that contextualizes Blake's work. Following in the footsteps of Bentley's pioneering scholarship, this collection, richly illustrated, demonstrates that the locus of Blake's work lies in the elements that are historically particular to his place and time. Topics include the impact of the town of Chichester on Blake's imagination, the material processes of Blake's painting, the detection of a Blake forgery, and new biographical materials, using archives and online resources, on Blake's contemporaries, patrons, peers, and friends. Essays on the importance of Blake collections world-wide, on variant printings, and on the heirs of Blake in British painting extend the focus of this remarkable investigation to include chalcography and book history.

Author : William Blake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of Innocence written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Quinney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674035249
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake on Self and Soul written by Laura Quinney and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist. In William Blake on Self and Soul, Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity.Blake’s central topic, Quinney shows us, is a contemporary one: the discomfiture of being a self or subject. The greater the insecurity of the “I” Blake believed, the more it tries to swell into a false but mighty “Selfhood.” And the larger the Selfhood bulks, the lonelier it grows. But why is that so? How is the illusion of “Selfhood” created? What damage does it do? How can one break its hold? These questions lead Blake to some of his most original thinking.Quinney contends that Blake’s hostility toward empiricism and Enlightenment philosophy is based on a penetrating psychological critique: Blake demonstrates that the demystifying science of empiricism deepens the self’s incoherence to itself. Though Blake formulates a therapy for the bewilderment of the self, as he goes on he perceives greater and greater obstacles to the remaking of subjectivity. By showing us this progression, Quinney shows us a Blake for our time.

Author : Andrew Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952221111
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake's Job written by Andrew Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake's interpretation in words and pictures of the story of Job contains his most mature, concise and direct statement of the theme which is central to all his work, the spiritual and psychological development of a human life. He wrote of man's 'Fall into Division and his Resurrection to Unity'; and all his works have the purpose of illuminating the path which can lead from the state of 'Error' and inner conflict, into which all unavoidably fall, towards one of true vision, wholeness and inward peace. His perception of the nature of 'Error', or delusion, and of what must be faced if it is to be overcome, is conveyed, not only in rational terms, but also through images which touch the less rational levels of the mind, objectifying the conflicting forces which are at work. This makes it possible to think constructively about them and to uncover the delusions instead of simply being possessed by them. The emphasis is on his spiritual and psychological message and its direct relevance to the individual life rather than on 'Blake scholarship'; and that message points the way to a very positive philosophy of life, based on knowing and understanding, not on belief; it also gives a remarkably clear and unified view of the psychological patterns of life, arguably adding a new dimension to our understanding.

Author : Jenny Blake
Publisher : IdeaPress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781646870660
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Time written by Jenny Blake and published by IdeaPress Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake discusses ways to simplify and streamline your business to cut out bottlenecks and focus on what matters.

Author : Godfrey Hodgson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691122885
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America in Our Time written by Godfrey Hodgson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new afterword by the author

Author : Sarah Blake
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819575186
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. West written by Sarah Blake and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West’s life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person’s public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake’s aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader’s companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.

Author : Clarence Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Artists of Our Time written by Clarence Cook and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contained in the collection are numerous illustrations and steel plate engravings by the great artists of the time."--Franklinbooks.com.

Author : G.E. Bentley Jr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581677
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake in the Desolate Market written by G.E. Bentley Jr and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience taught William Blake that "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." His brilliant achievements as a poet, painter, and engraver brought him public notice, but little income. William Blake in the Desolate Market records how Blake, the most original of all the major English poets, earned his living. G.E. Bentley Jr, the dean of Blake scholars, details the poet's occupations as a commercial engraver, print-seller, teacher, copperplate printer, painter, publisher, and vendor of his own books. In his early career as a commercial engraver, Blake was modestly prosperous, but thereafter his fortunes declined. For his most ambitious commercial designs, he made hundreds of folio designs and scores of engravings, but was paid scarcely more than twenty pounds for two or three years' work. His invention of illuminated printing lost money, and many of his greatest works, such as Jerusalem, were left unsold at his death. He came to believe that his "business is not to gather gold, but to make glorious shapes." William Blake in the Desolate Market is an investigation of Blake's labours to support himself by his arts. The changing prices of his works, his costs and receipts, as well as his patrons and employers are expertly gathered and displayed to show the material side of the artistic career in Britain's Romantic period.

Author : Munjon Moses Nagelberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama in Our Time written by Munjon Moses Nagelberg and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: