Blake and the Failure of Prophecy
(Sprache: Englisch)
This monograph reorients discussion of Blake's prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with...
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This monograph reorients discussion of Blake's prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be reconciled. At every stage, Blake's writing confronts the central problem of all politically minded literature: how texts can become action. Yet he presents us with no single or, indeed, conclusive answer to this question and in this sense it can be said that he fails. Blake, however, never stopped searching for a way that prophecy might be made to live up to its promise in the present. The twentieth-century hermeneuticist Paul Ricoeur shared with Blake a preoccupation with the relationship between time, text and action. Ricoeur's hermeneutics thus provide a fresh theoretical framework through which to analyse Blake's attempts to fulfil his prophetic purpose.
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1 Introduction: Prophetic Failure.- 2 Calling All Prophets.- 3 Prophetic Action.- 4 The Origins of Loss.- 5 Delusive Visions.- 6 Prophet of Eternity.- 7 Conclusion.Autoren-Porträt von Lucy Cogan
Lucy Cogan is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research is focused on the intersection of gender, politics and religion in the writing of the Long Eighteenth Century. She has published a range of articles on William Blake and women's writing in the period.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lucy Cogan
- 2021, 1st ed. 2021, XI, 225 Seiten, Maße: 14,8 x 21 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3030676870
- ISBN-13: 9783030676872
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Cogan's book does an exceptional job of exploring such tensions across the range of Blake's corpus. None of the caveats above lessens my admiration for its daring and innovative engagement with Blake's treatment of prophecy." (G. A. Rosso, Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, Vol. 56 (3), 2022-2023)
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