Darkness in William Blake's First Book of Urizen
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The conference contribution focuses primarily on selected aspects of darkness in William Blake’s The First Book of Urizen, which are identified at a textual, visual and also metaphorical level. As the contribution tries to emphasise, the textual and visual level are equally important in terms of complexity of Blake’s poetic imagination and expression. The First Book of Urizen may be understood as Blake’s introduction into his distinctive cosmology and cosmology, which allows him to provide his own creation myth. Through the analysis of selected aspects of darkness, the contribution attempts to demonstrate Blake’s views on the material world and its subjective morality resulting in social constructs, including institutionalised forms of law and religion. |
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