A bastard kind of reasoning : William Blake and geometry /
What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common? The poet and artist William Blake's geometry--the conception of space-time that informs his work across media and genres. In this illuminating, inven...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
[2023]
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| Edice: | SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18254961 |
Obsah:
- Introduction: Geometry and Blake's Newton print
- Chapter 1. "Oh, but you're just analogizing..."
- Chapter 2. Learning to read in a force field: Songs of Innocence, Hartleyan psychology, and the physics of R.J. Boscovich
- Chapter 3. The Book of Urizen as a vortex of perception
- Chapter 4. A brief particular history of the fourth dimension of space, with special reference to Milton: A Poem
- Chapter 5. The Neoplatonism of Blake's mundane soul
- Chapter 6. Berkeley: very close, but no cigar
- Conclusion: The unified space-time of The Vision of the Last Judgment.