An edition of Blake's nostos (1997)

Blake's nostos

fragmentation and nondualism in The four zoas

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An edition of Blake's nostos (1997)

Blake's nostos

fragmentation and nondualism in The four zoas

Blake's Nostos establishes The Four Zoas, Blake's controversial, unfinished epic, as the culmination of the poet's mythos. Kathryn S. Freeman shows that, in its freedom to experiment with nontraditional narrative, this prophetic book is Blake's fullest representation of nondual vision as it coexists with the material world. Blake's scheme of consciousness eliminates the Enlightenment hierarchy of faculties in a structure centered around a nondual vision operating through and subsuming the fragmented world.

The author draws on the analogue of Eastern philosophy to describe Blake's nondualism. According to this interpretation of Blake's epic, consciousness itself is the hero whose nostos is the apocalyptic return to wholeness from the multiple ruptures that comprise the fragmenting journey of Albion's dualistic dream.

Blake's Nostos demonstrates that for each of the central elements of myth - causality, narratology, figuration, and teleology - Blake superimposes such dual and nondual perspectives as time and eternity as well as bounded spaced and infinity.

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English
Pages
208

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Blake's nostos: fragmentation and nondualism in The four zoas
1997, State University of New York Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194) and index.

Published in
Albany
Series
SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.7
Library of Congress
PR4144.F683 F74 1997, PR4144.F683F74 1997, PR4144.F683 F74 1997eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 208 p. :
Number of pages
208

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1002904M
Internet Archive
blakesnostosfrag0000free
ISBN 10
0791432971, 079143298X
LCCN
96042241
OCLC/WorldCat
42855528, 35285504
Library Thing
485261
Goodreads
845314
1646650

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