Embodied Visions in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion

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Embodied Visions in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion

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William Blake characterised an abstract as “A murderer of its own Body,” an attempt to impose stable mastery on an unstable reality (E153). This thesis reads Blake’s illuminated poem, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, from the ‘unstable’ perspective of ‘Embodied Visions,’ based on the hypothesis that readings of the poem have often been distorted by the imposition of binary divisions: divisions that are undermined within the work itself. This approach to Visions of the Daughters of Albion i...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2015

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Atkinson, Rosalind

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Embodied_Visions_in_William_Blake_s_Visions_of_the_Daughters...

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British and Irish literature / Blake / Visions of the Daughters of Albion / Embodiment / Tezuka / Wollstonecraft / Embodied visions / School: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies / British and Irish Literature / Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture / Degree Discipline: English / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Arts

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