Episode 227: William Blake’s The Four Zoas. The Fall of Albion as a Fall into Unreality, a Delusional State—the State We Are Living In. A Quick Sketch of the “Plot.”

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Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education

Michael Dolzani

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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.

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Episode 227: William Blake’s The Four Zoas. The Fall of Albion as a Fall into Unreality, a Delusional State—the State We Are Living In. A Quick Sketch of the “Plot.”

Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education

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3 months ago

Episode 227: William Blake’s The Four Zoas. The Fall of Albion as a Fall into Unreality, a Delusional State—the State We Are Living In. A Quick Sketch of the “Plot.”

Why bother with the difficulties of this poem? Because Blake is showing us the nightmare we are dreaming right now. The fall of the universal being Albion is into the alienated state of the “cloven fiction,” or subject-object division. But that breeds madness. It breeds delusional “magical thinking,” which breeds strife, violence, terror, despair. We are Albion.