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Blake's 'Jerusalem' as visionary theatre
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Susanne Sklar engages with the interpretive challenges of William Blake's illuminated epic poem Jerusalem by considering it as a piece of visionary theatre - an imaginative performance in which characters, settings, and imagery are not confined by mundane space and time - allowing readers to find coherence within its complexities.
Cover -- Contents -- Plates -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- About this Book -- Some Important Terms -- The Critical Background -- The Texts -- Part I: Perspectives, Characters, Settings -- 1. Visionary Theatreâ€?Apocalyptic Images -- Jerusalem and the Book of Revelation -- Alchemical Visionary Theatre -- Sublime Allegoryâ€?and Visionary Theatre -- Entering Apocalyptic Images -- 2. Dramatis Personae -- Angelmorphic Characters: The One and the Many -- The Characters -- 3. Jerusalem: Her Character and Context -- Like Christ -- The Harlot, the Bride
The Woman Clothed with the SunJoanna Southcott, A Woman Clothed with the Sun -- In Blakeâ€?s Poem -- 4. Jerusalemâ€?s Jesus -- Nature and Function -- Jesusâ€?s First Appearances -- Visualizing Jesus: Youngâ€?s Night Thoughts -- Coinherent Contraries -- Beyond Law: Blake and St Paul -- Erotic Spirituality -- The Birth of Jesus -- Healing Ministry: Raising Albion -- Beyond the Trinity -- Transfiguring Crucifixion -- Creative Apocalypse -- 5. Shifting Settingsâ€?Building Projects -- Shifting Settings -- Building Projects -- Druid Structures
GolgonoozaJerusalem: The Transfiguring City -- Part II: The Commentary -- Reading the Poem -- 1. â€?To the Publicâ€?â€?Albionâ€?s Fall -- Overture: The Preface (1â€?4) -- Opening Scene: Albion Rejects the Divine Song (4â€?5) -- Scene Two: Los and the Spectre (6:1â€?11:7) -- Scene Three: In the Spaces of Erin (11:8â€?14:34) -- Scene Four: Sculpting World Views (15â€?17) -- Scene Five: Hand and Hyle Intensify Fallenness (18â€?19) -- Scene Six: Beulah and the Veil (19:40â€?25:17) -- Interval (26) -- Plate 26 -- 2. â€?To the Jewsâ€?â€?Rescue Attempts
The Preface (27)Scene One: Albionâ€?s Fall: The Refugee Report (28â€?30) -- Scene Two: The Triumph of Vala (31:2â€?34:35) -- Scene Three: The Divisions of Reuben (34:36â€?36:42) -- Scene Four: Los and the Eternals (36:43â€?41:31) -- Scene Five: The Rescue Attempt (42â€?6) -- Scene Six: Cycles of Violence (47:1â€?48:12) -- Scene Seven: Redemptive Erin, A Terrible Separation (48:13â€?50:30) -- Interval (51) -- Plate 51 -- 3. â€?To the Deistsâ€?â€?Calamities Amplify -- The Preface (52) -- Scene One: Intensified Fall, Los Infected! (53:1â€?58:20)
Scene Two: Urizenâ€?s Temple (58:21â€?59:21)Scene Three: In Cathedronâ€?s Looms (59:22â€?62:42) -- Scene Four: Hermaphrodite Spectre Rising (63:1â€?65:4) -- Scene Five: Naked Daughters, War, Disease (65:5â€?69:5) -- Scene Six: Beulah-Ulro/Heavenly Canaan (69:6â€?71:55) -- Scene Seven: Fallibly Building (71:56â€?75:27) -- Excursus -- Interval (76) -- Plate 76â€?Transfiguring Crucifixion -- 4. â€?To the Christiansâ€?â€?The Great Awakening -- The Preface (77) -- Scene One: Jerusalem Before the Furnaces (78:1â€?80:36)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011