Reading William Blake Contributor(s): Makdisi, Saree (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521763037 ISBN-13: 9780521763035 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $63.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
Dewey: 821.7 |
LCCN: 2014039050 |
Series: Reading Writers and Their Work |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.2" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 150 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: William Blake (1757‒1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmaker. Grounding his ideas both in close reading and in the latest scholarship, Saree Makdisi offers an exciting and imaginative approach to reading Blake. By exploring some of the most important themes in Blake's work and connecting them to particular plates from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Makdisi highlights Blake's creative power and the important interplay between images and words. There is a consistent emphasis on the relationship between the material nature of Blake's illuminated books, including the method he used to produce them, and the interpretive readings of the texts themselves. Makdisi argues that the material and formal openness of Blake's work can be seen as the very basis for learning to read in the spirit of Blake. |
Contributor Bio(s): Makdisi, Saree: - Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Making England Western (2014), Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2010), William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (2003), and Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge, 1998). |