Blake's Nostos: Fragmentation and Nondualism in The Four Zoas

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SUNY Press, 1997 M01 1 - 208 páginas
Blake's Nostos establishes The Four Zoas, Blake's controversial, unfinished epic, as the culmination of the poet's mythos. Kathryn S. Freeman shows that, in its freedom to experiment with nontraditional narrative, this prophetic book is Blake's fullest representation of nondual vision as it coexists with the material world. Blake's scheme of consciousness eliminates the Enlightenment hierarchy of faculties in a structure centered around a nondual vision operating through and subsuming the fragmented world. The author draws on the analogue of Eastern philosophy to describe Blake's nondualism. According to this interpretation of Blake's epic, consciousness itself is the hero whose nostos is the apocalyptic return to wholeness from the multiple ruptures that comprise the fragmenting journey of Albion's dualistic dream. Blake's Nostos demonstrates that for each of the central elements of myth--causality, narratology, figuration, and teleology--Blake superimposes such dual and nondual perspectives as time and eternity as well as bounded space and infinity.

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Blakes Mythos Nondual Vision in a Dualistic World
1
Centricity and the Vortex
96
City of Art Temple of Mystery The Divided Path to Apocalypse
112
Prophetic Disclosure and Mediated Vision Blake in the Context of the English Romantic Sublime
142
Notes
160
Bibliography
170
Index
178
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Kathryn S. Freeman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami.

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