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UNINA9910782723903321 |
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Autore |
Pierce John Benjamin <1957-> |
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Titolo |
Flexible design [[electronic resource] ] : revisionary poetics in Blake's Vala or The four Zoas / / John B. Pierce |
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Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-85488-7 |
9786612854880 |
0-7735-6698-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xxvii, 206 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. ; ; 24 cm |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 18th century |
Poetics - History - 18th century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Textual Note -- Preface -- Introduction: Manuscript and Poetics -- Narrative -- Beginnings and Creation -- Experiments in Structure -- Character -- Recasting the Copperplate -- Completing the Four Zoas -- The Revelations of Rahab -- Conclusion: Revisionary Poetics -- The Copperplate Text of Vala -- Stages in the Development of Nights vii through ix of Vala or The Four Zoas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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