03004nam 2200637Ia 450 991078272390332120230912150114.01-282-85488-797866128548800-7735-6698-810.1515/9780773566989(CKB)1000000000713634(SSID)ssj0000279537(PQKBManifestationID)11912384(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279537(PQKBWorkID)10267947(PQKB)10004114(CaPaEBR)400823(Au-PeEL)EBL3331126(CaPaEBR)ebr10141798(CaONFJC)MIL285488(OCoLC)929121439(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/mt071d(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400823(MiAaPQ)EBC3331126(DE-B1597)655732(DE-B1597)9780773566989(MiAaPQ)EBC3245429(EXLCZ)99100000000071363420000311d1998 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFlexible design[electronic resource] revisionary poetics in Blake's Vala or The four Zoas /John B. PierceMontreal McGill-Queen's University Pressc1998xxvii, 206 p., 8 p. of plates ill. ;24 cmBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-1682-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.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 -- IndexUsing 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.Narration (Rhetoric)History18th centuryPoeticsHistory18th centuryNarration (Rhetoric)HistoryPoeticsHistory821/.7Pierce John Benjamin1957-1540039MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782723903321Flexible design3791405UNINA