The Dialectic of Vision: A Contrary Reading of William Blake's Jerusalem - Softcover

Dortort, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 188644949X ISBN 13: 9781886449497

Publisher: AmazonUs/INDPB, 1998

Synopsis

Literary Criticism. An important addition to alternative criticism of William Blake, this compelling work will be essential to scholars, poets and serious readers of Blake. ... The Dialectic Of Vision: A Contrary Reading Of Blake's Jerusalem completes a trilogy of books, published by Station Hill Press and now by Station Hill Arts/Barrytown, Ltd., on Blake's final prophetic works. The series includes Mark Bracher's Being Form'd: Thinking Through Blake's Milton (1985), and Donald Ault's Re-visioning William Blake's The Four Zoas (1987). the Dialectic Of Vision -- by far the most radical of these three works, (is) certainly one of the most unorthodox books ever written on Blake ... (Donald Ault). In brief, Dortort has written the only book that does justice to the ultimate poem of Blake's career, giving us new tools for Blakean and general scholarship in the process (Molly Anne Rothenberg, Toulane University, author of Rethinking Blake's Textuality). Includes 14 black and white plates.

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Review

"Fred Dortort's Dialectic of Vision will be necessary reading for Blake scholars and Romanticists. It will also be controversial, for Dortort challenges the received interpretations that have made us comfortable with Jerusalem and demonstrates how complex, demanding, and recalcitrant the text really is." -- Dan Miller, editor, Critical Paths: Blake and the Argument of Method

Edition details

• Publisher: AmazonUs/INDPB
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 188644949X
• ISBN 13: 9781886449497
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 468