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

• Autore: Pierce John Benjamin <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998
• Descrizione fisica: xxvii, 206 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. ; ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 821/.7
• Soggetto topico: Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 18th century; Poetics - History - 18th century
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Flexible design
• ISBN: 1-282-85488-7; 9786612854880; 0-7735-6698-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782723903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II