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Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

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"Vala" or "The Four Zoas" is one of Blake's few surviving manuscripts and affords an opportunity to examine a significant evolution in his poetic practice. While the poem itself exhibits a consistent thematic interest, the modes and methods of representing these interests underwent a radical change in the ten or more years in which Blake wrote and reworked the poem. This text offers an extended and detailed treatment of the gradual shift that took place in Blake's poetics during the composition, transcription and revision of "Vala" or "The Four Zoas".

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Utgivningsdatum1998-05-20
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor1
FörlagMcGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN9780773516823

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"Pierce has created a landmark contribution that will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to make sense of one of English literature's notoriously difficult works. He has grasped far more profoundly than any other reader the material history of the manuscript and the inescapable, determining consequences of that history for our reading of the text as a whole. Others have realized bits and pieces of this picture but no one comes anywhere close to Pierce in being able to stand back and make sense of the narrative shifts and inconsistencies created by constant addition to the manuscript. He has a remarkable command of the various complications and an enviable ability to present them lucidly. The scholarship is exemplary and the style engaging and clear." Nelson Hilton, Department of English, University of Georgia