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Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital

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Main Details

Title Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Claire Colebrook
SeriesContinuum Literary Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:200
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - poetry and poets
Philosophy - aesthetics
ISBN/Barcode 9781441155337
ClassificationsDewey:821.7
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication Date 15 March 2012
Publication Country United States

Description

Drawing on recent theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this fascinating study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake. First, Blake offers a critique of digital media. His poetry and method of illuminated printing is directed towards uncovering an analogical language. Second, Blake's work can be read as a performative. Finally, Blake's work is at one and the same time immanent and transcendent, aiming to return all forms of divinity and the sacred to the human imagination, stressing that 'all deities reside in the human breast,' but it also stresses that the human has powers or potentials that transcend experience and judgement: deities reside in the human breast. These three claims are explored through the concept of incarnation: the incarnation of ideas in words and images, the incarnation of words in material books and their copies, the incarnation of human actions and events in bodies, and the incarnation of spirit in matter.

Author Biography

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA.