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Flexible Design : Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or the Four Zoas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773566989
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flexible DesignDDC classification:
  • 821/.7
LOC classification:
  • PR4144.F683 P54 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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