About this book
Introduction
William Blake's illuminated poems challenge their readers to participate fully in a highly interactive process of reading. The complex interaction of their verbal and visual texts forces the involved reader to assume greater responsibility than usual for formulating meaning. This book examines some of the ways in which Blake's illuminated poems subvert the customary authority of texts and force readers to reassess both their expectations about reading and their customary responses to words and visual images alike.
Keywords
epic John Milton poem William Blake
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230380165
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-38959-9
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-38016-5
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