Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or the Four Zoas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780773516823)

Using the idea of a "flexible design," John Pierce examines the ways in which Blake's mythology and his poem possess a flexibility that allows for significant change to characters, symbols, and poetic techniques within a previously constructed framework. Pierce traces how, in the process of revision, Blake experimented with characterization, increased the importance of Christian symbolism, and developed a mode of narrative presentation controlled less by chronological sequence than by the use of thematic juxtaposition and typology.

Author: John B. Pierce
ISBN-10: 0773516824
ISBN-13: 9780773516823
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/1998
Pages: 1
Format: Hardcover