William Blake's Visions

Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av David Worrall

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Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake’s visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake’s insanity.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-17
Mått148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Antal sidor262
Upplaga2024
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031532535

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Introduction.- CHAPTER ONE: The Physiology of Blake’s Hallucinations.- CHAPTER TWO: Perceiving More Than Perception.- CHAPTER THREE: Klüver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations.- CHAPTER FOUR: Agents Inducing Klüver Visual Hallucinations- CHAPTER FIVE: Blake’s Synaesthesia.- CHAPTER SIX: Blake’s Synaesthesia II: The Visionary Heads.- CHAPTER SEVEN: Blake’s Synaesthesia III: the Testimony of Crabb Robinson.- CHAPTER EIGHT: Discussion and Conclusion.

“In William Blake’s Visions: Art, hallucinations, synaesthesia, David Worrall explores the visions’ ‘traceable perceptual phenomenology’. What Blake experienced, he explains, were not illusions or delusions, but hallucinations, ‘images produced on his retina through neural processes’. The book, which appears in the Palgrave Studies of Literature, Science and Medicine series, gives a highly technical account of the retino-cortical processes involved. ... It is good to have a firm scientific explanation of the visions ... .” (Jenny Uglow, TLS The Times Literary Supplement, April 25, 2025)