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"This timely collection of essays ads tot he momentum that has been building in recent years for a fresh start in Blake studies--an impulse both to cleanse the doors of perception of Blake's critics and to sweep out the interpreter's parlor in which his now-familiar body of poetry has come to reside. . . . The most appealing feature of "Critical Paths" is its spirit of exploration--its zest in challenging cherished assumptions, its impatience with questions that have been asked too often, its agile movement between skepticism and affirmation, its air of the workshop rather than the museum or the shrine."--Mary Lynn Johnson
List of contents
Illustrations ix
Key to References xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction / Dan Miller 1
Methods and Limitations / Stephen D. Cox 19
Synecdoche and Method / Hazard Adams 41
Blake's Revisionism: Gnostic Interpretation and Critical Methodology / William Dennis Horn 72
Literal/
Tiriel/Material / Nelson Hilton 99
Blake's De-Formation of Neo-Aristotelianism / Donald Ault 111
Blake and the Deconstructive Interlude / Dan Miller 139
Rouzing the Faculties: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Marriage of Heaven and Hell in the Reader / Mark Bracher 168
Blake, Women, and Sexuality / Brenda S. Webster 204
Blake's Feminist Revision of Literary Tradition in "The SICK ROSE" / Elizabeth Langland 225
Representations of Revolution: From
The French Revolution to
The Four Zoas / David Aers 244
"in vain the Eloquent tongue": An Un-Reading of
VISIONS of the Daughters of Albion / Thomas A. Vogler 271
Afterword / David Wagenknecht 310
Notes 329
Index 369
Contributors 381
About the author
Dan Miller, Mark Bracher and Donald Ault, eds.
