Buch, Englisch, Band 92, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm
Reihe: Costerus New Series
The Dynamics of Interaction in William Blake’s Myth and Poetry
Buch, Englisch, Band 92, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm
Reihe: Costerus New Series
ISBN: 978-90-5183-681-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Throughout his discussions, Van Lieshout focuses on the relation of Blake's Generation and Eternity, which he identifies as Bakhtinian 'world views'. In Generation, existence is finalized as a hierarchy of geometric 'dark globes', each assuming the character of universal whole to the exclusion of all others. Eternity, on the other hand, is Blake's fractal 'human form' of existence that is continuously organized and reorganized in the dynamic interaction of whole and parts.
Blake represents these world views as interinvolved. Their dynamic interaction reflects and refracts his conceptual thought, mythological narrative, and poetic language. Hence, his visionary epic self-organizes into a self-similar complex system whose patterns of behaviour are not merely remarkably like those that modern applications of nonlinear dynamics are revealing in the physical world, but are indeed inherent in the processes of writing and reading his individual works.