國立虎尾科技大學 |

Blake's drama = theatre, performance and identity in the illuminated books /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Blake's drama/ Diane Piccitto.
Reminder of title:	theatre, performance and identity in the illuminated books /
Author:	Piccitto, Diane.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	264 p. :10 b&w, ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 - English. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137378018 (electronic bk.) :

Blake's drama = theatre, performance and identity in the illuminated books /
Piccitto, Diane.

Blake's dramatheatre, performance and identity in the illuminated books /[electronic resource] :Diane Piccitto. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 264 p. :10 b&w, ill.

Electronic book text.

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Theatre of the Illuminated Books 2. Spectatorial Entrances: Where Brechtian Alienation Meets Medieval Presence 3. Staging Urizen: The Melodrama of Identity Formation 4. The Performativity of Inspiration: Action and Identity in Milton Conclusion Bibliography Index.

Document

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.Blake's Drama explores the implications of taking the 'Visionary forms dramatic' of William Blake literally, providing an alternative perspective on the long-standing critical debate on the text-image dynamic in his works. It reinterprets his multimedia productions - poetry, painting and engraving - as dramas which provoke a spectatorship called on to act, and argues that the resulting depiction of identity is paradoxically both essential and constructed. By employing an interdisciplinary approach that brings medieval, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, as well as modern discourses on theatre into dialogue with contemporary theory, this book situates these works in the performance and visual culture of their time. Doing so reveals the theatrical as well as linguistic performativity of Blake's verbal-visual art form, offering an unconventional picture of Blake as invested in drama, action, exteriority, and the body.

PDF.

Diane Piccitto holds a PhD from the University of Western Ontario. Before moving to London, UK, as an independent scholar, she was a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Zurich.

ISBN: 1137378018 (electronic bk.) :£50.00Subjects--Personal Names:

1008799
Blake, William,
1757-1827.--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1008800
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
--English.

LC Class. No.: PR4147

Dewey Class. No.: 821.7

Blake's drama = theatre, performance and identity in the illuminated books /
LDR:04193nam a22003972a 4500 001 798836
003 UK-WkNB
005 20140716000000.0
007 cu||||||||||||
008 150519e201406uuxxka |s|||||||0|0 eng|d
020 $a 1137378018 (electronic bk.) : $c £50.00
020 $a 9781137378002
020 $a 9781137378019 (electronic bk.) : $c £50.00
035 $a 9781137378019
040 $a UK-WkNB $b eng $c UK-WkNB
050 4 $a PR4147
072 $a DSBF $x 2AB $2 bicssc
072 7 $a DSC $x 2AB $2 bicssc
072 7 $a LIT $2 ukslc
082 0 4 $a 821.7 $2 23
100 1 $a Piccitto, Diane. $3 1008798
245 1 0 $a Blake's drama $h [electronic resource] : $b theatre, performance and identity in the illuminated books / $c Diane Piccitto.
250 $a 1st ed.
260 $a Basingstoke : $b Palgrave Macmillan : $b [distributor] Macmillan(US), $c 2014.
300 $a 264 p. : $b 10 b&w, ill.
365 $a 02 $b 50.00 $c GBP $d 00 $h S 41.67 20.0 50.00 8.33 $j GB $k xxk $m Palgrave Macmillan $2 onix-pt
365 $a 02 $b 90.00 $c USD $d 00 $e Local taxes may apply $h Z 90.00 0.0 90.00 0.00 $j US $k xxu $m Ingram Book Company $2 onix-pt
366 $b 20140627 $c IP 20140620 $j GB $k xxk $m Palgrave Macmillan $2 UK-WkNB
366 $b 20141010 $j US $k xxu $m Ingram $2 UK-WkNB
500 $a Electronic book text.
500 $a Epublication based on: 9781137378002, 2014.
505 0 $a List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Theatre of the Illuminated Books 2. Spectatorial Entrances: Where Brechtian Alienation Meets Medieval Presence 3. Staging Urizen: The Melodrama of Identity Formation 4. The Performativity of Inspiration: Action and Identity in Milton Conclusion Bibliography Index.
516 $a Document
520 $a Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body. $b Blake's Drama explores the implications of taking the 'Visionary forms dramatic' of William Blake literally, providing an alternative perspective on the long-standing critical debate on the text-image dynamic in his works. It reinterprets his multimedia productions - poetry, painting and engraving - as dramas which provoke a spectatorship called on to act, and argues that the resulting depiction of identity is paradoxically both essential and constructed. By employing an interdisciplinary approach that brings medieval, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, as well as modern discourses on theatre into dialogue with contemporary theory, this book situates these works in the performance and visual culture of their time. Doing so reveals the theatrical as well as linguistic performativity of Blake's verbal-visual art form, offering an unconventional picture of Blake as invested in drama, action, exteriority, and the body.
520 1 $a This book will change the way we think about Blake. Diane Piccitto shows what happens when Blake's own vivid concept of 'Visionary Forms Dramatic' is taken seriously. She applies the idea of drama to Blake's illuminated books both historically and conceptually, drawing equal insight from the context of late eighteenth-century theatre and more unexpected comparisons such as the theories of Brecht and Stanislavsky, and the dramatic basis of Althusser's concept of interpellation. The interpretive results are impressive, especially in combination with Piccitto's own bright constellations of close reading. Her daring yet well founded arguments offer rich food for thought not only for Blakeans but also for those interested in the ongoing redefinition of Romantic drama, as well as larger issues of performance and identity, reader response, and the interactions of image and text. - Tristanne Connolly, University of Waterloo, Canada.
538 $a PDF.
545 0 $a Diane Piccitto holds a PhD from the University of Western Ontario. Before moving to London, UK, as an independent scholar, she was a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Zurich.
600 1 0 $a Blake, William, $d 1757-1827. $x Criticism and interpretation. $3 1008799
650 7 $a Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 $x English. $2 bicssc $3 1008800
650 7 $a Literary studies: poetry & poets $x English. $2 bicssc $3 1008801
650 7 $a Literature. $3 557269
856 4 $u http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137378019 $x 05 $z Online journal 'available contents' page