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| Named Person: | William Blake; Søren Kierkegaard; William Blake; Søren Kierkegaard |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Rovira |
| ISBN: | 9781441135599 1441135596 |
| OCLC Number: | 466343695 |
| Description: | viii, 184 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Blake and Kierkegaard : shared contexts -- Sources of Kierkegaardian anxiety and creation anxiety -- Denmark's and England's shared histories -- Denmark's and England's cultural anxieties -- Blake, Kierkegaard, and the cultural tensions -- 2. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Socratic tradition -- Human personality and the Socratic tradition -- Kierkegaard and the Socratic tradition -- Blake and the Socratic tradition -- 3. Blake, Kierkegaard, and the classical model of personality -- Kierkegaard's aesthetic stage and Blake's innocence -- Kierkegaard's ethical stage and Blake's experience -- Kierkegaard's religiousness A and B and Blake's visionary personality -- 4. Innocence, generation, and the fall in Blake and Kierkegaard -- Kierkegaard and the problem of generation -- Generation in Blake -- Urizen the reflective-aesthetic king -- Reason and imagination in Blake and Kierkegaard -- 5. Creation anxiety and The [First] Book of Urizen -- Urizen the creator-monarch -- Science and religion in the Urizen books -- Haufniensis, the demonic, and spiritlessness. |
| Series Title: | Continuum literary studies. |
| Responsibility: | by James Rovira. |
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'Rovira's book is an involved but extremely rewarding book, one that delves fully into the complex and sophisticated dialectical processes involved in Kierkegaard's thought... Blake and Kierkegaard as a whole is a carefully thought-through and argued text.'--Sanford Lakoff Read more...
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Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety observes the ongoing popularity of the Frankenstein story -- one in which a human being,...
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Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety observes the ongoing popularity of the Frankenstein story -- one in which a human being, though the agency of science, creates an independently thinking and feeling being -- and then identifies William Blake as one of the earliest authors in English literature to investigate this theme. This study compares William Blake's and Soren Kierkegaard's models of personality for the purpose of answering the question: Why do we fear what we create? I argue that Creation Anxiety in the work of William Blake, especially as evident in The [First] Book of Urizen and The Four Zoas, arises from the displacement of classical models of personality (as conceived by Socrates and received through the Medieval era) by Enlightenment models. We fear what we create because we are recreating ourselves into we know not what. Because Kierkegaard shares Blake's concerns about the predominance of Enlightenment models of personality, and because he lived in a culture similar to Blake's characterized by tensions between monarchy and democracy, science and religion, and nature and artifice, his concept of anxiety is apropos to understanding the variety of anxieties characterizing Blake's work. Major works discussed in this monograph include Blake's The First Book of Urizen, The Four Zoas, selections from The Songs of Innocence and of Experience (particularly the Introduction to Innocence and "To Tirzah"), and Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety, Either/Or I and II, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, and The Sickness Unto Death. This work can be cross-listed in various areas in Literature, Philosophy, Religion, British History, Danish History, and Psychology.
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