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William Blake and the body

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William Blake and the Body re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form.

In Blake's designs, transparent-skinned bodies passionately contort; in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births.

The culmination is an ideal body uniting form and freedom.

Connolly explores romantic-era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage and twentieth-century theorists like those of Kristeva, Douglas, Girard to provide an innovative new analysis of Blake's transformations of body and identity.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
0230597017 / 9780230597013
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
821.7
06/09/2002
England
English
241 pages
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