What Language for Prophets And/Or Loss (Paperback)

Paperback. Jerome McGann's work is a pataparodic reflection on William Blake's visionary Menippean satire The Marriage and Heaven and Hell, where Blake skewered the thought and practice of his period's secular and sacred Enlightenments. Having grown a public address more blind and indigent than even Blake imagined, contemporary regimes of our Modernity are here called to an outrageous comic accounting staged as a set of relentless language games and prosepoetic Nonsense. A gallery of arresting never-neverland illuminations by the artist Arthur Kennickell, nearly all -- but, significantly, not all -- created specifically for this work, open fresh doors of perception into what Blake's and McGann's works set out to do. What Language for Prophets and/or Loss is a more synoptic act of " transubstantiation" than the selections that appeared last year in McGann's Transubstantiations, also published by Station Hill Press. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …