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Challenging the idea that a writerâe(tm)s work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blakeâe(tm)s major illuminated books in the ahistorical present, an impersonal spirit realm beyond the three-dimensional self. Blake, Cooper shows, was a formalist who exploited eighteenth-century scientific and philosophical research on vision, sense, and mind for spiritual purposes. Through irony, dialogism, two-way syntax, and synesthesia, Blake extended and refined the prophetic method Milton forged in Paradise Lost to bring the performativity of traditional oral song and storytelling into print. Cooper argues that historicist attempts to place Blakeâe(tm)s vision in perspective, as opposed to seeing it for oneself, involve a deeply self-contradictory denial of his performativity as a poet-artist. Rather, Blakeâe(tm)s expansion of linear reading into a space of creative, self-conscious collaboration laid the basis for his lifelong critique of dualism in religion and science, and anticipated the non-Euclidean geometrics of twentieth-century Modernism.

Who reads William Blake And The Productions Of Time?

Author

Andrew M. Cooper

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing Group; Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351872928

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14