William Blakes Recreation Of Gnostic Myth

Author : Peter J. Sorensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake's Recreation of Gnostic Myth written by Peter J. Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reads Blake's writings as an initiation into a divine revelation (gnosis) given to the poet-prophet. The vision is dualistic and heterodox, and bears a striking and consistent resemblance to the visions and writings of many of the Christian gnostics of ancient times.

Author : Linda Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019254277X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Myth of America written by Linda Freedman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the novel. American writers have turned to Blake to rediscover the symbolic meaning of their country in times of cataclysmic change, terror, and hope. Blake entered American society when slavery was rife and civil war threatened the fragile experiment of democracy. He found his moment in the mid twentieth-century counterculture as left-wing Americans took refuge in the arts at a time of increasingly reactionary conservatism, vicious racism, pervasive sexism, dangerous nuclear competition, and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, the fires of Orc raging against the systems of Urizen. Blake's America, as a symbol of cyclical hope and despair, influenced many Americans who saw themselves as continuing the task of prophecy and vision. Blakean forms of bardic song, aphorism, prophecy, and lament became particularly relevant to a literary tradition which centralised the relationship between aspiration and experience. His interrogations of power and privilege, freedom and form resonated with Americans who repeatedly wrestled with the deep ironies of new world symbolism and sought to renew a Whitmanesque ideal of democracy through affection and openness towards alterity.

Author : H. Bruder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230379575
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Daughters of Albion written by H. Bruder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment. By placing some of Blake's early prophetic works in startingly new historical contexts (most provocatively those of female conduct and pornography) a very different image of the radical Blake emerges. The book shows what can be achieved when a challenging methodology, feminist historicism, is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work.

Author : Peter J. Sorensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gnostic Myth and Ritual in the Poetry of William Blake written by Peter J. Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheila A. Spector
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754689
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonders Divine written by Sheila A. Spector and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Blake's esoteric and religious influences

Author : Leopold Damrosch Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853737
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth written by Leopold Damrosch Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Peter Julian Sorensen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Gnostic Myth and Ritual in the Poetry of William Blake written by Peter Julian Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated quarterly.

Author : David Spooner
Publisher : Hamilton Books:Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780761831754
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insect-populated Mind written by David Spooner and published by Hamilton Books:Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Insect-Populated Mind, author David Spooner proposes a close connection between aspects of insect evolution and the human intellect. By examining seemingly disparate subjects, such as entomology, language, theory, genetics, astronomy, literature, and music, Spooner proves that synthesis is indeed possible. Once this fusion is achieved, the human species can be seen as connected not just to the great apes, but also via consciousness to metamorphic insects. While considering Richard Dawkins' and Susan Blackmore's expositions of memes, Spooner suggests that the concept of memes remains a peripheral understanding of religion and the arts. The book also presents arguments on the roots and nature of the mind in the work of Daniel Dennett and Steven Pinker. Book jacket.

Author : Jos van Meurs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake and His Gnostic Myths written by Jos van Meurs and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: