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Dark Figures in the Desired Country : Blake's Illustrations to the Pilgrim's Progress by Gerda S. Norvig (1993, Hardcover)
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Toward the end of his life, William Blake produced a beautiful sequence of 28 watercolor drawings to illustrate Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. These rarely seen drawings show him at the peak of his powers, radically reinterpreting one of the central texts of English literature.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520044711
ISBN-139780520044715
eBay Product ID (ePID)450833
Product Key Features
Book TitleDark Figures in the Desired Country : Blake's Illustrations to the Pilgrim's Progress
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1993
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorGerda S. Norvig
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight33.8 Oz
Item Length10.2 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN91-020400
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal759.2
SynopsisToward the end of his life, William Blake produced a beautiful sequence of 28 watercolor drawings to illustrate Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress . These rarely seen drawings show him at the peak of his powers, radically reinterpreting one of the central texts of English literature. Gerda Norvig's book, with its stunning color reproductions, offers the first detailed study of these important works of art. Norvig sets the watercolors in the context of Blake's lifelong engagement with Bunyan's myth and in relation to the Puritan writer's own artistic and critical methods. She shows how deeply Blake's love-hate relationship with Bunyan influenced not only these particular drawings but also Blake's revolutionary theories of art and poetics. With judicious use of psychoanalytical and post-structuralist critical theory, she demonstrates that Blake's pictorial interpretation of The Pilgrim's Progress tells a contemporary, self-reflexive tale about interpretation. Blake implicates author, narrator, and reader in a dream-protagonist's never-ending search for a proper stance on the relations of self and other., Toward the end of his life, William Blake produced a beautiful sequence of 28 watercolor drawings to illustrate Bunyan'sPilgrim's Progress. These rarely seen drawings show him at the peak of his powers, radically reinterpreting one of the central texts of English literature. Gerda Norvig's book, with its stunning color reproductions, offers the first detailed study of these important works of art. Norvig sets the watercolors in the context of Blake's lifelong engagement with Bunyan's myth and in relation to the Puritan writer's own artistic and critical methods. She shows how deeply Blake's love-hate relationship with Bunyan influenced not only these particular drawings but also Blake's revolutionary theories of art and poetics. With judicious use of psychoanalytical and post-structuralist critical theory, she demonstrates that Blake's pictorial interpretation ofThe Pilgrim's Progresstells a contemporary, self-reflexive tale about interpretation. Blake implicates author, narrator, and reader in a dream-protagonist's never-ending search for a proper stance on the relations of self and other.
LC Classification NumberNC978.5.B55N67 1993
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