Blake's drama : theatre, performance, and identity in the illuminated books

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Blake's drama : theatre, performance, and identity in the illuminated books

Diane Piccitto

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Summary: "Blake's Drama explores the implications of taking the 'Visionary forms dramatic' of William Blake literally, providing an alternative perspective on the long-standing critical debate on the text-image dynamic in his works. It reinterprets his multimedia productions - poetry, painting and engraving - as dramas which provoke a spectatorship called on to act, and argues that the resulting depiction of identity is paradoxically both essential and constructed. By employing an interdisciplinary approach that brings medieval, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, as well as modern discourses on theatre into dialogue with contemporary theory, this book situates these works in the performance and visual culture of their time. Doing so reveals the theatrical as well as linguistic performativity of Blake's verbal-visual art form, offering an unconventional picture of Blake as invested in drama, action, exteriority, and the body"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 227-240

Includes index

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内容説明

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

目次

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Theatre of the Illuminated Books 2. Spectatorial Entrances: Where Brechtian Alienation Meets Medieval Presence 3. Staging Urizen: The Melodrama of Identity Formation 4. The Performativity of Inspiration: Action and Identity in Milton Conclusion Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BC13148385
  • ISBN
    • 9781137378002
  • LCCN
    2014019323
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Basingstoke, Hampshire
  • ページ数/冊数
    viii, 251 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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