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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782723903321

Autore

Pierce John Benjamin <1957->

Titolo

Flexible design [[electronic resource] ] : revisionary poetics in Blake's Vala or The four Zoas / / John B. Pierce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998

ISBN

1-282-85488-7

9786612854880

0-7735-6698-8

Descrizione fisica

xxvii, 206 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. ; ; 24 cm

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 18th century

Poetics - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.