Blake: Removing the Curse by Printing for the Blind
Blake: Removing the Curse by Printing for the Blind
This chapter studies William Blake's characteristic themes, which were developed in close relationship with the imagery of blindness and in the light of its philosophical debates, starting with Blake's debate of the imagery of blindness and the blind with empiricist epistemology. The next section studies Blake's Tiriel, where he suggests a conformity between the institutional and the personal, and identifies the titular character as a dried form of authoritarianism. The chapter also discusses figurative blindness, commercial engraving and the decline of human vision.
Keywords: William Blake, empiricist epistemology, authoritarianism, commercial engraving, human vision, figurative blindness
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