| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 310 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford theological monographs |
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Oxford theological monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Plates -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- About this Book -- Some Important Terms -- The Critical Background -- The Texts -- Part I: Perspectives, Characters, Settings -- 1. Visionary Theatre�Apocalyptic Images -- Jerusalem and the Book of Revelation -- Alchemical Visionary Theatre -- Sublime Allegory�and Visionary Theatre -- Entering Apocalyptic Images -- 2. Dramatis Personae -- Angelmorphic Characters: The One and the Many -- The Characters -- 3. Jerusalem: Her Character and Context -- Like Christ -- The Harlot, the Bride |
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The Woman Clothed with the SunJoanna Southcott, A Woman Clothed with the Sun -- In Blake�s Poem -- 4. Jerusalem�s Jesus -- Nature and Function -- Jesus�s First Appearances -- Visualizing Jesus: Young�s Night Thoughts -- Coinherent Contraries -- Beyond Law: Blake and St Paul -- Erotic Spirituality -- The Birth of Jesus -- Healing Ministry: Raising Albion -- Beyond the Trinity -- Transfiguring Crucifixion -- Creative Apocalypse -- 5. Shifting Settings�Building Projects -- Shifting Settings -- Building Projects -- Druid Structures |
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GolgonoozaJerusalem: The Transfiguring City -- Part II: The Commentary -- Reading the Poem -- 1. �To the Public��Albion�s Fall -- Overture: The Preface (1�4) -- Opening Scene: Albion Rejects the Divine Song (4�5) -- Scene Two: Los and the Spectre (6:1�11:7) -- Scene Three: In the Spaces of Erin (11:8�14:34) -- Scene Four: Sculpting World Views (15�17) -- Scene Five: Hand and Hyle Intensify Fallenness (18�19) -- Scene Six: Beulah and the Veil (19:40�25:17) -- Interval (26) -- Plate 26 -- 2. �To the Jews��Rescue Attempts |
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The Preface (27)Scene One: Albion�s Fall: The Refugee Report (28�30) -- Scene Two: The Triumph of Vala (31:2�34:35) -- Scene Three: The Divisions of Reuben (34:36�36:42) -- Scene Four: Los and the Eternals (36:43�41:31) -- Scene Five: The Rescue Attempt (42�6) -- Scene Six: Cycles of Violence (47:1�48:12) -- Scene Seven: Redemptive Erin, A Terrible Separation (48:13�50:30) -- Interval (51) -- Plate 51 -- 3. �To the Deists��Calamities Amplify -- The Preface (52) -- Scene One: Intensified Fall, Los Infected! (53:1�58:20) |
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Scene Two: Urizen�s Temple (58:21�59:21)Scene Three: In Cathedron�s Looms (59:22�62:42) -- Scene Four: Hermaphrodite Spectre Rising (63:1�65:4) -- Scene Five: Naked Daughters, War, Disease (65:5�69:5) -- Scene Six: Beulah-Ulro/Heavenly Canaan (69:6�71:55) -- Scene Seven: Fallibly Building (71:56�75:27) -- Excursus -- Interval (76) -- Plate 76�Transfiguring Crucifixion -- 4. �To the Christians��The Great Awakening -- The Preface (77) -- Scene One: Jerusalem Before the Furnaces (78:1�80:36) |
| Summary |
Susanne Sklar engages with the interpretive challenges of William Blake's illuminated epic poem Jerusalem by considering it as a piece of visionary theatre - an imaginative performance in which characters, settings, and imagery are not confined by mundane space and time - allowing readers to find coherence within its complexities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Blake, William, 1757-1827. Jerusalem.
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| SUBJECT |
Blake, William, 1757-1827 fast |
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Jerusalem (Blake, William) fast |
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Visions in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Visions in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191619144 |
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0191619140 |
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9780191731594 |
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0191731595 |
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