William Blake and the Productions of Time

William Blake and the Productions of Time PDF Author: Andrew M. Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781409444411
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Book Description
Challenging the idea that a writer's work reflects his experiences in time and place, Cooper locates the action of William Blake's major illuminated books in the ahistorical present, an impersonal spirit realm beyond the three-dimensional self. Historicist attempts to place Blake's vision in perspective, Cooper argues, involve a self-contradictory denial of his performativity as a poet-artist of multiple geometrical dimensions.