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Flexible Design

Name: Flexible Design
Author: John B. Pierce
ISBN: 9780773516823

by John B. Pierce

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Using the idea of a "flexible design," John Pierce examines the ways in which Blake's mythology and his poem possess a flexibility that allows for significant change to characters, symbols, and poetic techniques within a previously constructed framework. Pierce traces how, in the process of revision, Blake experimented with characterization, increased the importance of Christian symbolism, and developed a mode of narrative presentation controlled less by chronological sequence than by the use of thematic juxtaposition and typology.

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Looks at one of Blake's few surviving manuscripts to examine the evolution of his poetical practice over the ten or more years that he took to hone the poem to his satisfaction. Finds that his mythology and the poem possess a flexibility that allows for significant change to characters, symbols, and poetic techniques within a previously constructed framework. Also shows how he experimented with characterization, increased the importance of Christian symbolism, and developed a mode of narrative presentation controlled less by chronological sequence than by the use of thematic juxtaposition and typology. Parts of the study have been published as journal articles. Canadian card order number: C97-900875-1. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.