Cargando…
Blake and Kierkegaard : creation and anxiety /
Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. However, these narratives find their initial expression not in the widely disseminated Frankenstein story but in William Blake's early mythological works...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2010.
|
| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. However, these narratives find their initial expression not in the widely disseminated Frankenstein story but in William Blake's early mythological works. This book looks at why we persistently fear our own creations by examining Blake's illuminated books of the 1790s through the lens of Kierkegaard's theories of personality and of anxiety. It offers a close examination of Kierkegaard's and Blake's similar, and to an extent shared, historical milieux as. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441114525 1441114521 1474211267 9781474211260 9786612576812 6612576812 9781441178060 1441178066 9781441136770 1441136770 |