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BLAKE AND MODERN LITERATURE
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| By: |
Edward Larrissy |
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Electronic book text |
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£66.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230627447 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230627444 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
25 August, 2006 |
| Description: |
William Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology. |
| Synopsis: |
When one looks for artists from the past who exert a strong influence in the modern and contemporary periods, William Blake comes nearly as high up on the list as Shakespeare. To Yeats he was the prophet of a new age and a new kind of art, to Joyce one of the greatest poets since the Renaissance, to Auden a revolutionary thinker who stood alongside Marx, Freud and Lawrence. Even Eliot is more indebted than he admits. His influence extends into the postmodern, where he is still treated as a sage in an uncertain world, partly because his wisdom appears to have been gained in a struggle with authority, partly because of his ambivalent fascination with myth: does it imprison us in received ideologies, or can it be re-created in liberating form? This is a question which confronts writers as diverse as Ginsberg, Angela Carter, Rushdie and Iain Sinclair. This new book, the first full-length study of Blake's influence on twentieth-century literature, will be fascinating reading to students and scholars of Blake and Romanticism, as well as Contemporary Literature. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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