{"title":"Deformed Bodies and Norse Origins in William Blake","authors":"S. Choe","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a renewed examination of the darkness and the body in William Blake’s The Book of Urizen (1794) in light of Old Norse creation myths found in Völuspá (ca. 1270) and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda (ca. 1220). These texts provide sources for the figure Urizen. The Book of Urizen presents readers with a version of creation filled with desolation and destruction and tracks the appearance of an unknown entity named “Urizen.” His darkness exposes a deformed body at the center of this new universe, one which is arguably heavily influenced by the Old Norse primordial void known as the ginnungagap.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0022","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article offers a renewed examination of the darkness and the body in William Blake’s The Book of Urizen (1794) in light of Old Norse creation myths found in Völuspá (ca. 1270) and Snorri Sturluson’s Edda (ca. 1220). These texts provide sources for the figure Urizen. The Book of Urizen presents readers with a version of creation filled with desolation and destruction and tracks the appearance of an unknown entity named “Urizen.” His darkness exposes a deformed body at the center of this new universe, one which is arguably heavily influenced by the Old Norse primordial void known as the ginnungagap.
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SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.
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