Today's Topics:
Re: what happened?: NASSR:calling Keri Davies, Jen Michael, Paul Yoder
gouging jerusalem
Re: gouging jerusalem: sublimely opaque
palimpsest of city
Re: NASSR
Re: gouging jerusalem: sublimely opaque
Re: NASSR
Re: NASSR
conflicting sublimes
Re: palimpsest of city
the sublime
Re: palimpsest of city
Re: conflicting sublimes
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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 06:11:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: reillys@ix.netcom.com (susan p. reilly)
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: Re: what happened?: NASSR:calling Keri Davies, Jen Michael, Paul Yoder
Message-Id: <199805291111.GAA12606@dfw-ix4.ix.netcom.com>
Looking at the 1998 NASSR schedule I see that Keri Davies, Paul Yoder,
and Jennifer Davis Michael, all sometime (late?) of this list, are
giving papers at NASSR--
I wonder whether the 3 of you might be persuaded to send abstracts to
the list.
Paul is talking on "Gouging _Jerusalem_", Keri on "Alexander Tilloch:
Original and Stereotype", and Jennifer on "Blake and the Palimpsests of
the City".
Susan Reilly
You wrote:
>
>I want my Blake! What happened to him? NorNob@aol.com
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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 09:10:21 -0600
From: rpyoder@ualr.edu
To: blake@albion.com
Subject: gouging jerusalem
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It is nice to see that Seth's fears of impending doom for the list have not
been realized. Apparently Blake online is still online.
In answer to Susan Reilly's request, here is the proposal I submitted for
my NASSR/BARS paper. It all grows out of my obsession with the question of
"what happens" in *Jerusalem* and why "what happens" is so hard to figure
out.
Gouging *Jerusalem*: Reading Blake's Erasures
The opening plates of William Blake's last major poem, Jerusalem the
Emanation of the Giant Albion (1820), are marked by several "erasures" of
text. On the frontispiece, for instance, Blake deleted 11 lines of poetry
written onto the stone of the Gothic arch into which Los steps. Perhaps
more revealing are the passages literally gouged out of plate 3 of
Jerusalem when, as Morton Paley puts it, Blake "attacked the copper plate."
In the former instance, the lines inked over on the Gothic arch had been
pronouncements on "Half friendship," the "Void outside of Existence," and
the "Sublime & Pathos" and "Reason" of Albion; in the passages gouged from
copper plate 3, Paley says that Blake "wanted to remove all traces of
personal intimacy and spiritual communion with his readership." Indeed,
Paley suggests that the gouges in plate 3 make it a "'broken te