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Sin duda, hay composiciones que trascienden lo musical, ya que suman a su belleza y categoría temáticas que nunca debiera caer en el olvido; también poseen grandes posibilidades didácticas. Este es el caso de El pequeño deshollinador, una... more
This paper has been published in a somewhat different form in Meg Harris Williams' "Aesthetic Conflict and its Clinical Relevance." - Karnac, 2018. It outlines the various "knife-edge" defenses the infant mind must struggle with... more
Parsi embroidery is an amalgamation of four distinct traditions of the East and West. Persian, Chinese, Indian and European elements and symbols come together in this unique Heritage of Humanity. Since the community is facing demographic... more
The article is devoted to the image of Russia and Russian territories in works of William Blake. We consider the possible aspects of the poet's acquaintance with Russia, Russian territories mentioned in his correspondence and writings.... more
Num texto pertencente ao espólio, Fernando Pessoa começa com a seguinte a frase: «O poeta é essencialmente um místico». Com esta citação como ponto de partida, pretendo, nesta comunicação, olhar para Fernando Pessoa como herdeiro de uma... more
Presentation on Emily Bronte's masterpiece, focusing on its relation to the Romantic movement more broadly and a certain sense of self-hood as dominated by wild, sublime passions.
Er(r)go... nieodzowność inaugurującego słowa, które z konieczności antycypuje przyszłość, ale i nieuchronnie wiąże nas z przeszłością. Przestrzeń ergo istniała zawsze (zważywszy komplikacje świata, może to słowo właśnie było pierwszym... more
The Devil's Party: John Milton in Blakean poetics
An undergraduate lecture in a module on Romanticism. References are to ROMANTICISM: AN ANTHOLOGY, 3rd ed., ed. Duncan Wu, Blackwell, 2006. References to Blake's marginalia are to POETRY AND PROSE OF WILLIAM BLAKE, ed. Geoffrey Keynes,... more
Blake's "The Divine Image", in fact, celebrates the traditional Christian virtues of Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love. Man, by nature, also possesses these virtues, but fails to realize it. A man can rise up to the level of God if only he... more
This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism, a period in which scientific, political, and industrial revolutions radically transformed the status of the human and redefined the... more
THE YEAR WHEN A journey of good and evil w. Blake undertook with the publishing of a series of poems called “SONGS OF INNOCENCE”. SIMPLISTIC IN NATURE AND STYLE, it appealed to different level of knowledge. This Paper will explore that... more
The paper examines the influence of Platonic and Neoplatonist ideas in Blake's oevure, and evaluates Blake's changing attitude towards Plato.
Conference paper. This paper examines parallels between William Blake's myth of a failed god in works like _The Book of Urizen_ and the implicit narrative of Bob Dylan's conversion and disillusionment during his gospel period. The paper... more
As William Blake's work stretches beyond its textual realm and transcends the time and place of its creation, it finds a home in 1960s America's music scene, where its popular reception and transformation by artists such as Jim Morrison... more
presentation at the royal academy of arts
This thesis examines how William Blake represents God and Christianity in Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and to what extent this representation parallels Blake’s religious outlook. First, Blake’s religious outlook as demonstrably... more
The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether the commentary and ideas of the architectural critic Ian Nairn (1930-1983) can be plotted into a coherent framework. To achieve this, influences referenced by and attributed to Nairn, such... more
An overview of those musicians who have composed settings of Blake's verse.
The term ‘conversion narrative’ lacks proper definition and can be understood more broadly than is often the case, underlining its fictive nature. I show this by reading William Blake’s Milton a Poem as a conversion narrative, exploring... more
Two aesthetic visionaries of the Romantic era explore human suffering through narrative engravings. Why can one forgive while the other merely repeats the cycle of oppression?
The greater part of this article is devoted to works by Charles Baudelaire but comparisons between aspects of his poetry and that of William Blake are central to the discussion of poems by Baudelaire in LES FLEURS DU MAL which feature a... more
I theme my Romantics course around the different perspectives each author brings to the function of imagination, both in terms of the creation of poetry and the use of imaginative poetry for envisioning the self, the world, and society.
Review of "Christopher Smart," by Neil Curry ( 2005).
"Twilight in Italy" demonstrates Lawrence’s subversive use of literary form and his challenging vision, proving that geography is able to shape and/or reshape personal identity. It is in this very special volume that Lawrence forges a... more
The Romantic Period in England can be considered as indicative of 'an age of crises' because the era witnessed several political affairs, ideologies and strategies such as slaver trade, colonialism, American and French Revolutions. These... more
Con quelle che altrove abbiamo chiamato 'trasfigurazioni nella luce', si arriva per gradi ad un'assoluta semplificazione, anzi alla scomparsa d'ogni forma, e financo d'ogni colore. Tocchiamo qui infatti i limiti estremi del simbolismo... more
This paper investigates the use of demons in videogames. It analyses how representations of demons in videogames replicate and subvert theological and socio-historic representations. While demons can be seen as ‘loans’ from Christianity,... more
本文分析了英国诗人威廉·布莱克作品在20世纪早期被译入汉语时所发生的跨语际嬗变,通过案例说明了早期文学翻译奠基者对后世文化的影响,并试图在源语言中重构诗人的核心理念与形象。
Abstract: Meaninglessness is one of the characteristics of modernism which presumes that meaning exists only in the structural whole. Modernism came into being in a period, when war, just before and during the outbreak of World War I,... more
Key to figures in Butlin 662, "Satan Calling up His Legions," the version now in Petworth House, done for Elizabeth Ilive, Countess of Egremont. Blake seems to have managed to squeeze in all the devil-deities Milton mentions (a few... more
published in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 47 (2013)