THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF WILLIAM BLAKE’S POEM JERUSALEM: A Revisionist Interpretation
| Author: | Yoder, R. Paul | |
| Year: | 2010 | |
| Pages: | 204 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-3640-5 978-0-7734-3640-4 | |
| Price: | $179.95 + shipping | |
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Argues that William Blake’s last major poem, Jerusalem, possesses a narrative structure. This argument runs contrary to the critical consensus that sees the poem as possessing a “synchronic” structure in which the events of the poem all occur simultaneously rather than sequentially. This book contains three color photographs.
Reviews
“. . . R. Paul Yoder marshals a persuasive array of neglected or overlooked evidence, both physical and thematic.” – Mary Lynn Johnson, University of Iowa
“Not only does [this work] make a significant and original contribution to the field, it has the potential to redirect future readings of Jerusalem in a narrative direction.” – Prof. Jennifer D. Michael, Sewanee University
"In this book, [the author] demonstrates precisely how the poem's narrative has been neglected or trivialized and what the crucial consequences of taking the narrative into account would be." -- Molly Ann Rothenberg
“Not only does [this work] make a significant and original contribution to the field, it has the potential to redirect future readings of Jerusalem in a narrative direction.” – Prof. Jennifer D. Michael, Sewanee University
"In this book, [the author] demonstrates precisely how the poem's narrative has been neglected or trivialized and what the crucial consequences of taking the narrative into account would be." -- Molly Ann Rothenberg
Table of Contents
Foreword by Nelson Hilton
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Community of Readers and the Pull of Narrative
Chapter 1: The Problems of Synchrony
Chapter 2: Significant Events: The Narrative of Jerusalem
Chapter 3: The Disappearing Context Trick: Blake’s Rhetoric of Discontinuity
Chapter 4: A Choice of Gods: Discourses of Divinity and Friendship
Coda: Felpham and Jerusalem
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Community of Readers and the Pull of Narrative
Chapter 1: The Problems of Synchrony
Chapter 2: Significant Events: The Narrative of Jerusalem
Chapter 3: The Disappearing Context Trick: Blake’s Rhetoric of Discontinuity
Chapter 4: A Choice of Gods: Discourses of Divinity and Friendship
Coda: Felpham and Jerusalem
Bibliography