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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rovira, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010.
Colección:Continuum literary studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Blake and Kierkegaard: Shared Contexts
  • Sources of Kierkegaardian Anxiety and Creation Anxiety
  • Denmark's and England's Shared Histories
  • Denmark's and England's Cultural Anxieties
  • Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Cultural Tensions
  • 2. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Socratic Tradition
  • Human Personality and the Socratic Tradition
  • Kierkegaard and the Socratic Tradition
  • Blake and the Socratic Tradition
  • 3. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Classical Model of Personality
  • Kierkegaard's Aesthetic Stage and Blake's Innocence
  • Kierkegaard's Ethical Stage and Blake's Experience
  • Kierkegaard's Religiousness A and B and Blake's Visionary Personality
  • 4. Innocence, Generation, and the Fall in Blake and Kierkegaard
  • Kierkegaard and the Problem of Generation
  • Generation in Blake
  • Urizen the Reflective-Aesthetic King
  • Reason and Imagination in Blake and Kierkegaard
  • 5. Creation Anxiety and The [First] Book of Urizen
  • Urizen the Creator-Monarch
  • Science and Religion in the Urizen Books
  • Haufniensis, the Demonic, and Spiritlessness.