This podcast is aimed at a non-specialist audience interested in acquiring what Northrop Frye called, in the title of one of his books, an educated imagination. Its materials are drawn from the many courses in literature and mythology that I taught, combined with material from my book The Productions of Time, for which I hope the podcast may provide an accessible introduction, with concrete examples.
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This podcast is aimed at a non-specialist audience interested in acquiring what Northrop Frye called, in the title of one of his books, an educated imagination. Its materials are drawn from the many courses in literature and mythology that I taught, combined with material from my book The Productions of Time, for which I hope the podcast may provide an accessible introduction, with concrete examples.
Episode 226: The Developing Mythology of William Blake in The Four Zoas: the Fall of the Cosmic Man Albion into Four Disunited Figures: Orc/Luvah, Urizen, Los, and Tharmas.
Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education
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Episode 226: The Developing Mythology of William Blake in The Four Zoas: the Fall of the Cosmic Man Albion into Four Disunited Figures: Orc/Luvah, Urizen, Los, and Tharmas.
In The Four Zoas, Blake’s vision expands past the fall of Urizen and the conflict with Orc. The original fall was that of Albion, a cosmic being. The four Zoas—Orc/Luvah, Urizen, Los, and Tharmas—are four parts of Albion’s psyche at war. Albion falls by turning from his own emanation, Jerusalem, to Vala, who is other and not part of his own being.
Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education
This podcast is aimed at a non-specialist audience interested in acquiring what Northrop Frye called, in the title of one of his books, an educated imagination. Its materials are drawn from the many courses in literature and mythology that I taught, combined with material from my book The Productions of Time, for which I hope the podcast may provide an accessible introduction, with concrete examples.
