Glorious Incomprehensible: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic LanguageBucknell University Press, 2001 - 202 pages Traces the evolution of hebraic etymologies and mystical grammars as indicators of a profound shift in Blake's subjective consciousness from the earliest prose tracts, worked on before 1790, to the last years of his life, when he was still completing 'Jerusalem'. |
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... attempt to eradicate or tran- scend the psychological " I , " in order to ( re ) unite with the One . While not denying the communica- tive function of language , mystics believe that in ad- dition to expressivism , language serves on ...
... attempt to eradicate or tran- scend the psychological " I , " in order to ( re ) unite with the One . While not denying the communica- tive function of language , mystics believe that in ad- dition to expressivism , language serves on ...
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... attempt to derive an English definition exposes the flaw in- herent in empirical thought , that material lan- guage effectively invalidates the existence of any- thing beyond its purview . are not attributable either to experience or to ...
... attempt to derive an English definition exposes the flaw in- herent in empirical thought , that material lan- guage effectively invalidates the existence of any- thing beyond its purview . are not attributable either to experience or to ...
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... attempt to minimize the importance of that rela- tionship by creating an objective methodology for analyzing language as a self - contained system . In that process , the first move had been to bracket lan- guage off from any purported ...
... attempt to minimize the importance of that rela- tionship by creating an objective methodology for analyzing language as a self - contained system . In that process , the first move had been to bracket lan- guage off from any purported ...
Contents
Illustrations | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Blakes Problem with Language | 21 |
Copyright | |
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Adam Ahania allegory Angel archetypal associated attempt Beulah Blake seems Blake's language Book of Los Book of Thel Book of Urizen Bromion Cambridge Christian context contraries conventional Copy Daughters of Albion David death derived Divine empirical English Enitharmon Essay Essick Eternity existence experience Four Zoas Fuzon glosses grammar guage Heaven and Hell hebraic etymologies Hebrew human intentional relationship interpreted Jerusalem Jewish Jews Kabbalah Kabbalism kabbalistic Katz letter Leutha linguistic literal London Luvah major prophecies Marriage of Heaven means Milton mode of thought Mysticism and Language myth negation noun Ololon Oothoon original Oxford Palamabron Parkhurst Philosophical plate poem Poetic predicated Princeton Prophet Rare Book Rational Soul Religion reprint sciousness selfhood sense signify Song Song of Los spiritual Studies subjective consciousness symbol Tharmas Thel's Theotormon thou tion tional Tiriel Tirzah trans transcend transformed University Press Urthona Vala vision visionary vols William Blake words York