Blake and Modern Literature

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Blake Between Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism

   • Edward Larrissy

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3. Zoas and Moods: Myth and Aspects of the Mind in Blake and Yeats

   • Edward Larrissy

   Pages 18-27

4. Eliot Between Blake and Yeats

   • Edward Larrissy

   Pages 28-36

5. Blake and Oppositional Identity in Yeats, Auden and Dylan Thomas

   • Edward Larrissy

   Pages 37-55

6. Blake and Joyce

   • Edward Larrissy

   Pages 56-69

7. Deposits’ and ‘Rehearsals’: Repetition and Redemption in The Anathémata of David Jones A Comparison and Contrast with Blake

   • Edward Larrissy

   Pages 70-79

8. Blake, Postmodernity and Postmodernism

   • Edward Larrissy

   Pages 80-99

9. Joyce Cary: Getting it from the Horse’s Mouth

   • Edward Larrissy

   Pages 100-107

10. Two American Disciples of Blake: Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg

    • Edward Larrissy

    Pages 108-124

11. Postmodern Myths and Lies: Iain Sinclair and Angela Carter

    • Edward Larrissy

    Pages 125-145

12. Salman Rushdie, Myth and Postcolonial Romanticism

    • Edward Larrissy

    Pages 146-155

13. Conclusion

    • Edward Larrissy

    Pages 156-156

14. Back Matter

    Pages 157-188

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William Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.

• English literature
• George Eliot
• Modernism
• postmodernism
• Romanticism
• William Blake
• William Butler Yeats
• British and Irish Literature

'this first full-length study of Blake's influence on twentieth-century literature is fascinating in it's range of reference.' - The Use of English

'...the most consistent and comprehensive text yet on Blake's literary influence.' - Jason Whittaker, Review of English Studies

EDWARD LARRISSY is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. He read English at Oxford, and has taught at the universities of Warwick and Keele. He has published books on Blake, on Modern and Contemporary Poetry and on Yeats.

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