Flexible Design : Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or the Four Zoas.
Pierce, John B.
Flexible Design : Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or the Four Zoas. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (245 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Textual Note -- Preface -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Manuscript and Poetics -- PART ONE: NARRATIVE -- 1 Beginnings and Creation -- 2 Experiments in Structure -- PART TWO: CHARACTER -- 3 Recasting the Copperplate -- 4 Completing the Four Zoas -- 5 The Revelations of Rahab -- 6 Conclusion: Revisionary Poetics -- APPENDICES -- A: The Copperplate Text of Vala -- B: Stages in the Development of Nights VII through IX of Vala or The Four Zoas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Vala or The Four Zoas is one of William Blake's few surviving manuscripts and affords a unique opportunity to examine a significant evolution in his poetic practice. While the poem itself exhibits a consistent thematic interest, the modes and methods of representing these interests underwent a radical change in the ten or more years in which Blake wrote and reworked the poem. Flexible Design offers an extended and detailed treatment of the gradual shift that took place in Blake's poetics during the composition, transcription, and revision of Vala or The Four Zoas.
9780773566989
Blake, William,-1757-1827.-Four Zoas.
Blake, William,-1757-1827.-Four Zoas-Criticism, Textual.
Blake, William,-1757-1827-Technique.
Narration (Rhetoric)-History-18th century.
Poetics-History-18th century.
Electronic books.
PR4144.F683 P54 1998
821/.7
Flexible Design : Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or the Four Zoas. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (245 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Textual Note -- Preface -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Manuscript and Poetics -- PART ONE: NARRATIVE -- 1 Beginnings and Creation -- 2 Experiments in Structure -- PART TWO: CHARACTER -- 3 Recasting the Copperplate -- 4 Completing the Four Zoas -- 5 The Revelations of Rahab -- 6 Conclusion: Revisionary Poetics -- APPENDICES -- A: The Copperplate Text of Vala -- B: Stages in the Development of Nights VII through IX of Vala or The Four Zoas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Vala or The Four Zoas is one of William Blake's few surviving manuscripts and affords a unique opportunity to examine a significant evolution in his poetic practice. While the poem itself exhibits a consistent thematic interest, the modes and methods of representing these interests underwent a radical change in the ten or more years in which Blake wrote and reworked the poem. Flexible Design offers an extended and detailed treatment of the gradual shift that took place in Blake's poetics during the composition, transcription, and revision of Vala or The Four Zoas.
9780773566989
Blake, William,-1757-1827.-Four Zoas.
Blake, William,-1757-1827.-Four Zoas-Criticism, Textual.
Blake, William,-1757-1827-Technique.
Narration (Rhetoric)-History-18th century.
Poetics-History-18th century.
Electronic books.
PR4144.F683 P54 1998
821/.7