Blake 2.0: William Blake in twentieth-century art, music and culture

Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. Sowho owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page. This volume takes 'Blake 2.0' as an interactive concept, examining digital dissemination of his works and reinvention by artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across a variety of twentieth-century media. STEVE CLARK Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Japan. He has edited several collections of essays on Blake, most recently 'Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture' with Jason Whittaker (2007) and 'Reception of Blake in the Orient with Masashi Suzuki' (2006). TRISTANNE CONNOLLY Associate Professor of English at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is the author of 'William Blakeand the Body' (2002), and editor of several essay collections including 'Liberating Medicine 1720-1835' with Steve Clark (2009) and 'Queer Blake' with Helen P. Bruder (2010). JASON WHITTAKERProfessor of Blake Studies and Head of the Department of Writing at University College Falmouth in Cornwall, UK. He has authored and edited eleven books, including 'Radical Blake: Influence and Afterlife from 1827' with Shirley Dent (2002), and is editor of the 'Blake 2.0' digital media network. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Notes on Contributors - Acknowledgements -List of Abbreviations - Introduction; 'J.Whittaker', 'S.Clark' & 'T.Connolly - 'PART I: BLAKEAN CIRCULATIONS - Mirrored Text. Infinite Planes: Reception Aesthetics in Blake's Milton; 'M.Lussier - ''Rouze up, O Young Men of the New Age!': William Blake, Theodore Roszak, and the Counter Culture of the 1960s-70s; 'P.Otto - 'Digital Blake 2.0; 'R.Whitson - ''Rob & Plunder. Translate & Copy& Buy & Sell & Criticise, but not Make': Blake and Copyright Today;' S.Dent'- 'New matter': Mona Wilson's The Life of William Blake 85 Years On; 'A.Whitehead - 'PART II: BLAKE AND VISUAL ART - Celebration and Censure: William Blakeand Stories of Masterliness in the British Art World, 1930-1959; 'C.Trodd - 'Blake and Surrealism; 'M.Sung - ''The Sculptor Silent Stands before His Forming Image': Blake and Contemporary Sculpture; 'M.Crosby' - 'Mental Joy & Mental Health. And Mental Friends & Mental Wealth': Blake and Art Therapy; 'P.Simpson - 'PART III: BLAKE IN FILM AND GRAPHIC ARTS - 'And did those feet?': Blake and the Role of the Artist in Post-War Britain; 'S.Matthews - 'Film in a Timeof Crisis: Blake, Dead Man, The New Math(s), and Last Days; 'M.Douglas - ''The end of the world. That's a bad thing right?': Form and Function from William Blake to Alan Moore; 'M.J.A.Green - 'PART V: BLAKE IN MUSIC - Blake Set to Music; 'K.Davies' - 'Only the wings on his heels': Blake and Dylan; 'S.Clark' & 'J.Keery' - 'He Took a Face from the Ancient Gallery': Blake and Jim Morrison; 'T.Connolly' - 'Hear the Drunken Archangel Sing': Blakean Notes in 1990s Pop Music; 'D.Fallon' - 'Mental Fight', 'Corporeal War', and Righteous Dub: The Struggle for 'Jerusalem', 1979-2009; 'J.Whittaker' - Works Cited - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28033-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés