Blake's Nostos: Fragmentation and Nondualism in The Four ZoasSUNY Press, 1997 M01 1 - 208 pages 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 space and infinity. |
Contents
Blakes Mythos Nondual Vision in a Dualistic World | 1 |
Centricity and the Vortex | 96 |
City of Art Temple of Mystery The Divided Path to Apocalypse | 112 |
Prophetic Disclosure and Mediated Vision Blake in the Context of the English Romantic Sublime | 142 |
Notes | 160 |
Bibliography | 170 |
Index | 178 |
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Common terms and phrases
Ahania Albion allegory apocalypse archetypal Ault authorial voice behold Blake's mythos Blakean causality centric chain chaos contrast created crucial Damrosch dark Daughters of Beulah Death describes Divine Vision dream dualistic duality echo Enion Enitharmon epic epiphany experience externalized divinity eyes outward fall fallen and redeemed fallen consciousness fallen world fear fictions Four Zoas Golgonooza heaven human ironic irony Jerusalem labyrinth Lamb Lamb of God limited linear lines literal Los's losing the Divine Luvah mandala mind Mundane Shell Mystery myth narrative narrator Night the Eighth Night the Fourth Night the Ninth Night the Second Night the Seventh nondual opening of Night organized innocence Ouroboros paradox parodic perception poem poem's poet projection prophecy prophetic quest quester reader redemption relationship representation reveals sciousness Song Spectre suggests symbolism synecdoche Tharmas Tharmas's thee thou tion Tree of Mystery University Press Urizen Urthona Vala Vala's vortex William Blake Wordsworth