William Blake and the Body
Author | : T. Connolly |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2002-09-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230597013 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230597017 |
Rating | : 4/5 (017 Downloads) |
Download or read book William Blake and the Body written by T. Connolly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-09-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake and the Body re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. In Blake's designs, transparent-skinned bodies passionately contort; in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. The culmination is an ideal body uniting form and freedom. Connolly explores romantic-era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage and twentieth-century theorists like those of Kristeva, Douglas, Girard to provide an innovative new analysis of Blake's transformations of body and identity.