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Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety de Dr James Rovira

Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety: Continuum Literary Studies

Autor Dr James Rovira
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2010
Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. This study applies Kierkegaard's "Concept of Anxiety" to Blake's creation myths to explain how Enlightenment personality conceptions created fear of independently thinking beings.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441135599
ISBN-10: 1441135596
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Continuum Literary Studies

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Examines the conjunction of literature and philosophy in Blakeâ?Ts mythological works and Kierkegaardâ?Ts work

Cuprins

Introduction
1. Blake and Kierkegaard: Shared Contexts
2. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Socratic Tradition 
3. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Classical Model of Personality
4. Innocence, Generation, and the Fall in Blake and Kierkegaard
5. Creation Anxiety and The [First] Book of Urizen
 Index 

Recenzii

"Blake and Kierkegaard speak from the same instinct of the human condition and of man's states of anxiety and self-awareness. James Rovira offers a highly nuanced comparative reading of both author's concepts, of innocence and experience, creation and fall, that not only enhances our understanding of the works under consideration but affirms their abiding and life-affirming relevance to modern thought."
'Rovira's book is an involved but extremely rewarding book, one that delves fully into the complex and sophisticated dialectical processes involved in Kierkegaard's thought... Blake and Kierkegaard as a whole is a carefully thought-through and argued text.'
"Rovira's comparative study of William Blake and Søren Kierkegaard offers fresh perspectives related to both thinkers in their shared sociocultural moment. Rovira (English, Tiffin Univ.) frames his inquiry within creation anxiety--i.e., the persistent idea that creations will ultimately turn against one in destructive ways. The author makes connections between Frankenstein, Metropolis, and the Matrix trilogy in order to justify the persistence of this anxiety through the last 200 years and to imply that the apprehensions that impacted Blake's and Kierkegaard's thinking--apprehensions resulting from tensions between democracy and monarchy, science and religion, nature and artifice--apply today. Rovira compares and contrasts ideas relating to the progressive development of the subject to show how both resisted mechanistic Enlightenment psychologies that led to creation anxiety: in Blake's case, from innocence through experience toward visionary perspectives; in Kierkegaard's, the differentiation of self from natural, social, and mental environment. Accessible yet provocative, this book makes a significant contribution and offers critical challenges to the scholarship surrounding both figures, and close readings (and re-readings) expose lingering tensions between self and subjectivity. Generous notes and a substantial comprehensive bibliography round out this excellent study. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates and above. -- J. A. Saklofske, Acadia University"- CHOICE
In Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety, Rovira shows much skill in handling both writers on the basis of the comparative premises he sets up. The comparative strategy is a stimulating device.the author proves that there is something to be gained from translating Blakean terms into Kierkegaardian concepts. Through Kierkegaard, we are provided with a fresh sense of how another thinker's conceptual structures can be used to clarify Blake's often perplexing mythology.

Notă biografică

James Rovira is Assistant Professor of English at Tiffin University, Ohio, USA.