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- W190228025 abstract "And Divine Appearance was & similitude of Los ... So saying Cloud overshadowing divided them asunder Albion stood in terror: not for himself but for his Friend Divine, & Self was lost in contemplation of faith And wonder at Divine Mercy & at Los's sublime honour--Jerusalem (1) Mimicry reveals something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called an itself that is behind.--Jacques Lacan (2) CULMINATING VISION AFFORDED ALBION IN THE FURNACES OF affliction (E256) at end of Jerusalem leads to an apocalyptic dream (All was a Vision, all a Dream E256) in which, famously, All Human Forms [are] identified even Tree Metal Earth & Stone (E258), a consummation reasonably described as an ideology of art, one which is realistic in some platonic sense. But it is not sufficiently remarked that this consummation is only made possible, as quotation above clearly shows, by a skewed or avoided mimesis. A few plates earlier in poem Los has been reminding Blake's readers in stentorian tones that insofar as identification might involve assumption of Universal Characteristics (curiously described as characters in Bible even beyond the Lord) it is a very bad thing, perhaps even root of all evil (they become an Eternal Death E250), and so when poem approaches its final identitarian rapture it only does so in a dream by virtue of a peculiarly controlled and distanced identification, almost a parody of real (platonic) thing. Albion sees Lord as likeness and similitude of Los, and--in an even odder translation of crucifixial sacrifice--Jesus allows an opacity (the Cloud) to screen him, even in this disguise, from Albion, making his identification even more (literally) difficult, even more a matter of faith. My purpose in this discussion is not to interpret Jerusalem but to use these few lines of it as a kind of template for constructing a warning against identitarian tendencies in interpretation of Blake. These tendencies seem relatively innocent in themselves, since they express themselves often by repeating poet's own propaganda mythos about clarity and image, but taken in conjunction with current antiquarian/archival taste for locating Blake in context of his contemporary dissident protestantism (at expense of Northrop Frye's effort to make him a contemporary), they are contributing to image of a Blake who has little to say to imagination, especially that theoretical imagination which associates apocalyptic totalization with Terror and with Holocaust and with Jonestown. In this discussion, therefore, I am concerned to restore Blake's dialogue with a modernism one can decently take an interest in, but my local target is specifically undivided image so dear to whole tradition of Blake scholarship, arguing that, whatever this means to interpreters, to Blake its clear function is to divide and separate--that is, to prevent identification--rather than platonically to mean. In criticism I analyze I want to uncover an anxious dialectic not only in poet but also in some of his most faithful readers between a tendency to apocalyptic totalization of meaning (which I understand as identitarian) and something much more radical, something that shakes meaning fundamentally, that perhaps only dangerous approach of totalization would pave way toward in Blake's historicized vocabulary. The opposition to totalization, according to terms of this dialectic, is therefore not mounted by ambiguous or uncertain meanings (though I believe Blake suffered much more from uncertainty than is usually allowed) but by an idea of expression closer to mimicry than mimesis. I believe this idea--which permeates every aspect of his writing and illustrating--is one significant thing that is modern about Blake, and I invoke it to license my attempts to align him more generally with thought. …" @default.
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- W190228025 title "Mimicry against Mimesis in Infant Sorrow: Seeing through Blake's Image with Adorno and Lacan" @default.
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