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An edition of Flexible design (1998)

Flexible design

revisionary poetics in Blake's Vala or The four Zoas

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Vala or The Four Zoas is one of William Blake's few surviving manuscripts and affords a unique opportunity to examine a significant evolution in his poetic practice. While the poem itself exhibits a consistent thematic interest, the modes and methods of representing these interests underwent a radical change in the ten or more years in which Blake wrote and reworked the poem.

Flexible Design offers an extended and detailed treatment of the gradual shift that took place in Blake's poetics during the composition, transcription, and revision of Vala or The Four Zoas. Pierce traces how, in the process of revision, Blake experimented with characterization, increased the importance of Christian symbolism, and developed a mode of narrative presentation controlled less by chronological sequence than by the use of thematic juxtaposition and typology.

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McGill-Queen's University Press
Language
English
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206

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Subjects

History, Narration (Rhetoric), Poetics, Technique, Textual Criticism, Blake, william, 1757-1827

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William Blake (1757-1827)

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18th century

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Flexible design: revisionary poetics in Blake's Vala or The four Zoas
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.

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Montreal

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821/.7
Library of Congress
PR4144.F683 P54 1998, PR4144.F683P54 1998

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xxvii, 206 p. :
Number of pages
206

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OL6887047M
ISBN 10
0773516824
LCCN
00503394, cn97900875
OCLC/WorldCat
43684858
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7923194
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2092135

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