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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... relationship with the World of ( Prototypical ) Creation , but to reflect on ... intentional relationships implied by the interaction between the souls and ... intentional relationship . This concept of intentionality is preceded ...
... relationship with the World of ( Prototypical ) Creation , but to reflect on ... intentional relationships implied by the interaction between the souls and ... intentional relationship . This concept of intentionality is preceded ...
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... intentional relationship to that which can be experienced empirically , bracketing off other realms as being beyond man's purview . The effect has been to reduce the English primarily to pre - intentional and factual modes of thought ...
... intentional relationship to that which can be experienced empirically , bracketing off other realms as being beyond man's purview . The effect has been to reduce the English primarily to pre - intentional and factual modes of thought ...
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... intentional relationship . The ensuing Preludium represents the chaotic state of pre - intentionality that existed before the subjective consciousness established a viable rela- tionship with external reality . As the pre - inten ...
... intentional relationship . The ensuing Preludium represents the chaotic state of pre - intentionality that existed before the subjective consciousness established a viable rela- tionship with external reality . As the pre - inten ...
Contents
Illustrations | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 15 |
Blakes Problem with Language | 21 |
Copyright | |
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Glorious Incomprehensible: The Development of Blake's Kabbalistic Language Sheila A. Spector No preview available - 2001 |
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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