William Blake - Contemporary Critical Essays

This New Casebook contains ten essays written about Blake''s poetry since 1970 selected to show the diversity of Blake criticism during the last twenty years and the ways in which contemporary critical theories open up new readings of his work. Essays representative of Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, feminist and new historicist criticism are included. David Punter''s Introduction places these in the context of recent developments in critical theory and shows how today''s student can best engage with Blake''s complex and rewarding work.>

List of contents

Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction; D.Punter
Orc as a Fiery Paradigm of Poetic Torsion; G.Quasha
Babylon Revisited, or The Story of Luvah and Vala; J.Hagstrum
Angels out of the Sun: Art, Religion and Politics in Blake's America; D.E.James
Blake in the Chains of Being; N.Hilton
Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion: Revising an Interpretive Tradition; L.Haigwood
Repeating the Same Dull Round; G.Edwards
Visible Language: Blake's Wond'rous Art of Writing; W.J.T.Mitchell
Reading Blake and Derrida: Our Caesars Neither Praised nor Buried; D.Simpson
Representations of Revolution: From The French Revolution to The Four Zoas; D.Aers
Blake, Women and Sexuality; B.Webster
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.

About the author

David Punter

Product details

• Authors: David Punter
• Assisted by: Davi Punter (Editor), David Punter (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.1996
• EAN: 9780333545973
• ISBN: 978-0-333-54597-3
• No. of pages: 221
• Series: New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback); New Casebooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Designed / suitable for A and AS Level (England and Wales), Designed / suitable for A & AS Level, For advanced / upper secondary education