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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aYoungquist, Paul
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMadness and Blake's Myth /
_cPaul Youngquist.
264 1 _aUniversity Park, PA :
_bPenn State University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1990
300 _a1 online resource (212 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Refuge from unbelief --
_t2. Lyric into Myth --
_t3. King, Creator, Madman --
_t4. Schizophrenia and the Ancient Man --
_t5. Trial and Defense --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis book offers the first systematic study of madness and its significance for the poetry of William Blake. Blake's reputation as an artist was long clouded by suspicions of madness. Although the great victory of his modern critics has been to see his work clearly, unobstructed by this prejudice, criticism now runs the risk of vindicating Blake the poet at the expense of understanding certain elements of his poetry. In Madness and Blake's Myth, Paul Youngquist argues that, in its thematic content and dramatic method, Blake's myth is about madness. From the early lyrics to the late epic-prophecies, Blake repeatedly dramatizes the dissociation of a unified mind in a manner that comes increasingly to resemble the major symptoms of mental illness. Drawing upon recent clinical and philosophical inquiries, Youngquist shows how Blake makes poetry out of mental suffering; madness comes to operate in his myth as a metaphor for the Fall. For all its literary sophistication, however, Blake's mythology serves specific psychological needs, acquiring a therapeutic function for Blake personally as a defense against the madness it dramatizes. Madness and Blake's Myth is a challenging reexamination of both a sophisticated literary achievement and the mind that conceived it.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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