Illuminated Fantasy: From Blake's Visions to Recent Graphic Fiction

by James Whitlark

Hardcover, 1988

Status

Available

Call number

PN3435 .W49

Publication

Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (1988), 241 pages

Description

Using recent findings in self-psychology, more traditional psychology, especially Jungian, and comparative religions, this study charts the significance of paradox and picture/text discrepancy in British and American illuminated fantasy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Special emphasis is given to how the work of William Blake foreshowed future patterns.

User reviews

LibraryThing member elenchus
Bought for its half-page description of Master Snickup's Cloak, a book I happened upon at a local library when I was perhaps twelve. I didn't understand it, though I read and re-read the slim volume of images and scant prose, but I loved the images, and sensed an irreverance and adult-ness in the
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prose that I wished I could identify with myself.

All that Whitlark writes about it is his own version of the above, but it was enough to convince me he's worth reading, so I picked it up. There's also a bit about Blake here, with some reproductions.
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Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0838633056 / 9780838633052
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