Blake's poetic endeavors may be said to be an attempt to provide a dynamic vigor to Christianity by resymbolizing some crucial doctrines. The biblical myth of the fall, for instance, is far from satisfactory. It is hard to understand that the eating of the fruit precipitated the fall of Adam and Eve. How can the acquisition of the knowledge of good and evil be represented as the source of all our woe? Moreover, Creation is not merely the prelude and necessary condition of the fall; it is the fall since it means the passage from the unmanifested One into the manifest multiplicity of nature. His myth is to solve these problems. Blake regards the creation as a result of the fall, and he accounts for the fall as psychic conflict of Albion, symbolized by the struggle for dominion between Urizen and Luvah. Urizen who had come to power constructed the mundane shell, i.e. the firmament that encompasses the natural world, the temple of the religion of suppressed sex, the temple of materialism and Natural Religion. The anterior myth, recounted at several points in Jerusalem, also explains how Albion, turning away from the Divine Vision, had fallen a prey to the sense of guilt, self-idolatry, and self-alienation. Thus Blake's myth of the fall not only implies, but cogently explicates various aspects of this fallen world.
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]