Saree Makdisi (Los Angeles University of California)

Reading William Blake

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Produktbeschreibung

Saree Makdisi offers a fresh and imaginative approach to reading William Blake, grounded in the latest research. This unique study inspires a deeper understanding of Blake's creative processes and encourages personal explorations of his work.

Produktdetails

• Reading Writers and their Work
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 261g
• ISBN-13: 9780521128414
• ISBN-10: 0521128412
• Artikelnr.: 41611733

Autorenporträt

Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Making England Western (2014), Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2010), William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (2003), and Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Image; 2. Text; 3. Desire; 4. Joy; 5. Power; 6. Time; 7. Making; Bibliography.

Rezensionen

'Reading William Blake is not about careless readings but the most careful, brought to life by Makdisi's own beautiful and precise critical prose.' Shirley Dent, The Times Literary Supplement