Blake and Kierkegaard : creation and anxiety / by James Rovira

• Autore: Rovira James
• Pubblicazione: London ; New York, : Continuum, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.7
• Soggetto topico: Creation in literature; Anxiety in literature; Literature - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-176) and index
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. Blake and Kierkegaard: Shared Contexts -- 2. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Socratic Tradition -- 3. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Classical Model of Personality -- 4. Innocence, Generation, and the Fall in Blake and Kierkegaard -- 5. Creation Anxiety and The [First] Book of Urizen -- Index --
• Sommario/riassunto: Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. However, these narratives find their initial expression not in the widely disseminated Frankenstein story but in William Blake's early mythological works. This book looks at why we persistently fear our own creations by examining Blake's illuminated books of the 1790's through the lens of Kierkegaard's theories of personality and of anxiety. It offers a close examination of Kierkegaard's and Blake's similar, and to an extent shared, historical milieux as
• Titolo autorizzato: Blake and Kierkegaard
• ISBN: 1-4742-1126-7; 1-282-57681-X; 9786612576812; 1-4411-1452-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818629403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum literary studies.