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Blake and the Failure of Prophecy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Blake and the Failure of Prophecy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This monograph reorients discussion of Blake's prophetic mode,
revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic,
human response to an era of momentous historical change when the
future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could
not be reconciled. At every stage, Blake's writing confronts the
central problem of all politically minded literature: how texts can
become action. Yet he presents us with no single or, indeed,
conclusive answer to this question and in this sense it can be said
that he fails. Blake, however, never stopped searching for a way
that prophecy might be made to live up to its promise in the
present. The twentieth-century hermeneuticist Paul Ricoeur shared
with Blake a preoccupation with the relationship between time, text
and action. Ricoeur's hermeneutics thus provide a fresh theoretical
framework through which to analyse Blake's attempts to fulfil his
prophetic purpose.
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