Wond'rous Art: William Blake and Writing
The Wond'rous Art: William Blake and Writing offers an extended analysis of what writing means to Blake as a thematic, formal, and theoretical construct. Arguing that writing, both as a thematic concern and a physical action, forms a site of contention for the representation of and resistance to signification, this study yokes two dominant contraries in Blake criticism: the emphasis on the material aspect of Blake's work and practical matters of textual production familiar from the work of...
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Pierce (English, Queen's U., Ontario) seeks to reconcile the two distinct strands of scholarship on British poet and artist Blake (1757-1827): textual and bibliographical criticism, which focuses on the material documents without concern for the content; and critical interpretations of the poetry and designs, which tends to ignore the material basis of the illuminated books and manuscripts. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Preface9Acknowledgments17Textual Note19Abbreviations21Introduction23Pt. IWriting1Scenes of Writing37Pt. IIWriting Narrative2Formal Structures I: The Continental Prophecies673Formal Structures II: The [First] Book of Urizen91Pt. IIIRe-Writing4Vala or The Four Zoas and the Archaeology of Writing1135Rewriting Milton130Epilogue: The Infernal Scriptorium152Notes160Bibliography177Index185
