Blake's word : learning to read, inner speech, and the unsayable /
This book explores how William Blake conceived the act of reading as an imaginative activation of Jesus the Word, the anonymous, unsayable potency of language that underlies speech. Through illuminated printing, Blake sought to incarnate this Word by re-educating his late-Enlightened audience in the...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Reading's "real surface"
- Blake's metaphysical shamanism
- Blake's early tractates : Hume, Bayesianism, and divine analogy
- The tractates, cont. : Bayesian culture, induction, and Berkeley's language of nature
- Reweaving the body with cognitive metaphors
- Small room for judgment : geometry and prolepsis in "Infant sorrow"
- The notebook as receptacle : Blake's Platonic realism
- Conclusion : Blake's living ironies.