Blake's night thoughts

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Label

Blake's night thoughts

Statement of responsibility

Jeremy Tambling

Creator

• Tambling, Jeremy

Subject

• Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Knowledge | Psychology
• Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Psychology
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Melancholy in literature
• Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Night in literature
• Psychology in literature
• Thought and thinking in literature
• Mental illness in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "Blake's Night Thoughts gives a close reading of Blake's texts - both lyric and prophetic - in relation to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas on the night as the outside, as the void drawing thought out, fragmenting it. Considering the representations of night in Milton and in Edward Young, whose Night Thoughts Blake illustrated, and the relation between poetry of the night and graveyard poetry, this original new study examines the meanings of night for Blake, as the alternative to day, as aligning writing to melancholia and madness, the outside
• Includes detailed analysis of major works such as The Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Four Zoas as well as less commonly studied texts including the Night Thoughts illustrations, For the Sexes and the Dante illustrations, this book provides a welcome new perspective from the usual preoccupations of Blake studies in its use of a theoretical framework."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

821/.7

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4148.P8

LC item number

T36 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography