Illuminated Fantasy: From Blake's Visions to Recent Graphic Fiction

Illuminated Fantasy: From Blake's Visions to Recent Graphic Fiction
ISBN-10
0838633056
ISBN-13
9780838633052
Category
Fantasy fiction
Pages
241
Language
English
Published
1988
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Author
James Whitlark

Description

Using recent findings in self-psychology, more traditional psychology, especially Jungian, and comparative religions, this study charts the significance of paradox and picture/text discrepancy in British and American illuminated fantasy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Special emphasis is given to how the work of William Blake foreshowed future patterns.

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