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- catalog abstract ""In Knight of the Living Dead, Kathleen Lundeen investigates Blake's work in the context of his spiritualistic practices, and shows how he attempts to create a discourse that circumvents the binary of natural and arbitrary signs. Her examination of his word-image art demonstrates that, in Blake's view, what we recognize as word or image depends upon our epistemological orientation, just as what we term "matter" or "spirit" is determined by our state of perception. It further shows how Blake critiques textual theory in both his songs and prophecies by stabilizing the two sets of parameters that are used to define and classify signs: the general and particular, and the literal and figurative. Moreover, she argues, Blake provides an epistemological alternative to empiricism and rationalism in his poetry and art. Through verbal and visual experiments he defies the logic that is rooted in sense perception and reason, and he attempts through those experiments to return textuality to a divinely literal condition. By treating spiritualism as an aesthetic practice and art as an otherworldly communication, he undermines the institutionalized boundaries in art and life, and presents a formidable challenge to the whole matter/spirit dualism upon which Western culture is based."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11899982.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In Knight of the Living Dead, Kathleen Lundeen investigates Blake's work in the context of his spiritualistic practices, and shows how he attempts to create a discourse that circumvents the binary of natural and arbitrary signs. Her examination of his word-image art demonstrates that, in Blake's view, what we recognize as word or image depends upon our epistemological orientation, just as what we term "matter" or "spirit" is determined by our state of perception. It further shows how Blake critiques textual theory in both his songs and prophecies by stabilizing the two sets of parameters that are used to define and classify signs: the general and particular, and the literal and figurative. Moreover, she argues, Blake provides an epistemological alternative to empiricism and rationalism in his poetry and art. Through verbal and visual experiments he defies the logic that is rooted in sense perception and reason, and he attempts through those experiments to return textuality to a divinely literal condition. By treating spiritualism as an aesthetic practice and art as an otherworldly communication, he undermines the institutionalized boundaries in art and life, and presents a formidable challenge to the whole matter/spirit dualism upon which Western culture is based."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Border Skirmishes in Blake's Word-Image Art -- 2. Urizen, Milton, and the Problem of Forged Identity -- 3. Disappearing Boundaries in Prophetic Geography: America, Europe, Jerusalem -- 4. Eluding the Border Patrol through Transparent Art.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-174) and index.".
- catalog extent "180 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1575910411 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog subject "821/.7 21".
- catalog subject "Blake, William, 1757-1827 Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Ontology in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR4148.P5 L86 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Border Skirmishes in Blake's Word-Image Art -- 2. Urizen, Milton, and the Problem of Forged Identity -- 3. Disappearing Boundaries in Prophetic Geography: America, Europe, Jerusalem -- 4. Eluding the Border Patrol through Transparent Art.".
- catalog title "Knight of the living dead : William Blake and the problem of ontology / Kathleen Lundeen.".
- catalog type "text".