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Continuum International Publishing, London
Drawing on recent theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this fascinating study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake. First, Blake offers a critique of digital media. His poetry and method of...
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Drawing on recent theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this fascinating study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake. First, Blake offers a critique of digital media. His poetry and method of illuminated printing is directed towards uncovering an analogical language. Second, Blakes work can be read as a performative Finally, Blakes work is at one and the same time immanent and transcendent, aiming to return all forms of divinity and the sacred to the human imagination, stressing that all deities reside in the human breast, but it also stres
Titlepage; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Media, Mediation, and Materiality; Sexual Difference; Chapter 2 Art and Life: Analog Language; Voice and Techne; Chapter 3 Incarnation; Chapter 4 Force and Form; Chapter 5 The Body of Work Beyond Good and Evil; Life, Economy, Evil; Poetry and Evil; Chapter 6 Life; Evil Be Thou My Good; Conclusion; Notes; Preface; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index;