J. Tambling

Blake's Night Thoughts (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth. Taking 'night' as the breakdown of rational progressive thought and of thought based on concepts of identity, the book reads the lyric poetry, some Prophetic works, including a chapter on The Four Zoas , the illustrations to Young, and Dante, and look's at Blake's writing of madness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230505612
• Artikelnr.: 38166987

Autorenporträt

JEREMY TAMBLING is Professor of Comparative Literature in the University of Hong Kong, and author of several studies in nineteenth century literature and modernism, and on critical theory. He has also published substantially on Dante, and his publications include Allegory and the Work of Melancholy in the Late Medieval and Shakespeare (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: 'The Sun is Gone Down' 'In the Silent of the Night' Young, and 'Weary Night' Night Dreams: The Four Zoas 'I see London, Blind...' 'Forests of the Night': Blake and Madness Dante's 'Deep and Woody Way' Notes Index

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Preface Introduction: 'The Sun is Gone Down' 'In the Silent of the Night' Young, and 'Weary Night' Night Dreams: The Four Zoas 'I see London, Blind...' 'Forests of the Night': Blake and Madness Dante's 'Deep and Woody Way' Notes Index