“I WILL NOT REASON & COMPARE: MY BUSINESS IS TO CREATE”: BLAKE AND THE PROBLEM OF METHOD
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William Blake, Literary Criticism, Art Criticism.Abstract
This paper will discuss the crisis in the blakean studies that happens in the 70s and 80s, at a time when new methods of interpretation begin to transform the canonical exegesis,pointing out to aspects that was not seen in the field of literary studies. This approach presented the criticism of method as a guarantee of access the text truth. The historical structure of this movement has great importance, especially because is in those decades that comes a new generation of authors that bring meaningful contributions for literary criticism.
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