Thinking through Blake : essays in literary contrariety / Hazard Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Hazard, 1926-2023, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blake, William, 1757-1827--Criticism and interpretation.

Blake, William.

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 195 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

"In this book, Blake scholar Hazard Adams presents a selection of essays that span his long career exploring the work and thought of the groundbreaking artist. The essays chart the evolution of Adams' own neo-Blakean literary thought, chronicling an effort to seek not merely a method but a philosophical base for the practice of literary criticism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Blake, Jerusalem, and Symbolic Form (1975) 17

Contemporary Ideas of Literature: Terrible Beauty or Rough Beast? (1977) 40

Essay on Frye (1991) 65

Reynolds, Vico, Blackwell, Blake: The Fate of Allegory (1993) 70

The World-View of William Blake in Relation to Cultural Policy (1993) 86

Conference 2: Chinese and Japanese-American Literary Relations (1994) 98

Is (Was) There No Tradition of Defense of Poetry in Chinese Culture? Why Has There Had to Be One in the West? (1995) 108

Four Problems (Among Many) for Humanistic Thought (1995) 122

"Literature" and the Visionary Tradition (1995) 127

"Literature" into "Ecriture"? (1995) 131

"An Antithetical Turn" (1996) 134

Ekphrasis Revisited, or Antitheticality Reconstructed (2000) 148

Quest and Cycle (2005) 161

Origin(ality) (2007) 165

The Marriage of Imagination and Intellect (2013) 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786479580

0786479582

OCLC:

866620307