TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pierce,John B.
TI  - Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or the Four Zoas
SN  - 9780773566989
AV  - PR4144.F683 P54 1998 
U1  - 821/.7 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Montreal
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Blake, William,-1757-1827.-Four Zoas
KW  - Blake, William,-1757-1827.-Four Zoas-Criticism, Textual
KW  - Blake, William,-1757-1827-Technique
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)-History-18th century
KW  - Poetics-History-18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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