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1 online resource (viii, 184 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Continuum literary studies
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Continuum literary studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-176) and index. |
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1. Blake and Kierkegaard: Shared Contexts -- Sources of Kierkegaardian Anxiety and Creation Anxiety -- Denmark's and England's Shared Histories -- Denmark's and England's Cultural Anxieties -- Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Cultural Tensions -- 2. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Socratic Tradition -- Human Personality and the Socratic Tradition -- Kierkegaard and the Socratic Tradition -- Blake and the Socratic Tradition -- 3. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Classical Model of Personality -- Kierkegaard's Aesthetic Stage and Blake's Innocence -- Kierkegaard's Ethical Stage and Blake's Experience -- Kierkegaard's Religiousness A and B and Blake's Visionary Personality -- 4. Innocence, Generation, and the Fall in Blake and Kierkegaard -- Kierkegaard and the Problem of Generation -- Generation in Blake -- Urizen the Reflective-Aesthetic King -- Reason and Imagination in Blake and Kierkegaard -- 5. Creation Anxiety and The [First] Book of Urizen -- Urizen the Creator-Monarch -- Science and Religion in the Urizen Books -- Haufniensis, the Demonic, and Spiritlessness. |
| Summary |
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 1790s 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Blake, William, 1757-1827. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. |
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Creation in literature.
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Creation in literature. |
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Anxiety in literature.
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Anxiety in literature. |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rovira, James. Blake and Kierkegaard. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010 9781441135599 (OCoLC)466343695 |
| ISBN |
9781441114525 (electronic book) |
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1441114521 (electronic book) |
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9781441135599 (hardcover) |
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1441135596 (hardcover) |
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