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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (1988), 241 pages
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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.
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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
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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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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English
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0838633056 / 9780838633052