William Blake's divine love : visions of Oothoon / Joshua Schouten de Jel.
"Despite the fact that William Blake summarises the plot of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) in just eight lines in the prefatory 'Argument,' there are several contentious moments in the poem which continue to cause debate. Critics read Oothoon's call to Theotormon'...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in romanticism.
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| Summary: | "Despite the fact that William Blake summarises the plot of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) in just eight lines in the prefatory 'Argument,' there are several contentious moments in the poem which continue to cause debate. Critics read Oothoon's call to Theotormon's eagles and her offer to catch girls of silver and gold as either evidence of her rape-damaged psyche or as confirmation of her selfless love which transcends her socio-sexual state. How do we reconcile the attack of Theotormon's eagles and the wanton play of the girls with Oothoon's articulate and highly sophisticated expressions of spiritual truth and free love? In William Blake's Divine Love: Visions of Oothoon, Joshua Schouten de Jel explores the hermeneutical possibilities of Oothoon's self-annihilation and the epistemological potential of her visual copulation by establishing an artistic and hagiographical heritage which informs the pictorial representation and poetic pronunciation of Oothoon's enlightened entelechy. Working with Michelangelo's The Punishment of Tityus (1532) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647-51), Oothoon's ecstatic figuration reflects two iconographic traditions which, framed by the linguistic tropes of divine love expressed within a female-centred mystagogy, reveal the soteriological significance of Oothoon's willing self-sacrifice"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032706306 1032706309 9781040003602 1040003605 9781040003657 1040003656 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 21, 2024). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Joshua Schouten de Jel is a doctoral graduate from the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of articles on William Blake, Mary Shelley, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and is also the author of Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood (Palgrave, 2021). |