William Blake and the prophetic voices of dissident tradition

Authors

  • Juliana Steil Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v47i1.1178

Keywords:

William Blake, Prophetic poetry, Dissident tradition, Radicalism

Abstract

In Fearful Symmetry, Frye comments on the need to undo the “myth that Blake is a literary freak” (FRYE, 1990, p.147). On the assumption that there continue to be resonances from this myth, this paper looks at the affinity between
William Blake’s poetic work and the dissident English tradition, a relationship that is rarely discussed by experts on the poet in Brazil. The paper reviews the existing literature on the subject and, via the work of Mee (1992, 1994, 2003) and Makdisi (2003), it assesses the antinomian angle of Blake’s writings in order to explain the assumed ideas of “prophet” and “prophecy” in his prophetic poems.

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Author Biography

Juliana Steil, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul,

Possui graduação em Letras pela Universidade do Vale do Itajaí (2004), mestrado e doutorado em Estudos da Tradução pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2007; 2011). Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Literaturas de Língua Inglesa e de Língua Portuguesa, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: poesia, tradução, adaptação de clássicos, relações entre palavra e imagem, William Blake.

Published

2018-12-31

How to Cite

Steil, J. (2018). William Blake and the prophetic voices of dissident tradition. Revista Da Anpoll, 1(47), 37–45. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v47i1.1178

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SEÇÃO LITERATURA