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Between the Black and White Spiders: Anatheism and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Yukevich, Henry Quentin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366385008

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2013, Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, English.
William Blake displays a spiritual vision in his poetry, or an awareness of a significant arena of reality that most of us are blind to. It is this tremendous spiritual vision that makes Blake so exciting and spiritually nourishing to read. The main objective of the project will be to investigate this spiritual vision through the work of philosopher Richard Kearney. Kearney posits in his book Anatheism that human beings must undergo a period of atheism in order to come to a more genuine faith in God. I aim to synthesize the poetry of Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell with the philosophy of Richard Kearney. I intend to investigate the relation between despair and exultation as an anatheistic moment. By using each text to come to a better understanding of the other, I will show that The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is decidedly anatheistic.
Andrew Slade, Ph.D. (Advisor)
32 p.
Literature; Philosophy
William Blake; spirituality; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; Richard Kearney; Anatheism; Proverbs of Hell; mysticism; iconoclast; prophet; sacramental

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  • Yukevich, H. Q. (2013). Between the Black and White Spiders: Anatheism and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [Master's thesis, University of Dayton]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366385008

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yukevich, Henry. Between the Black and White Spiders: Anatheism and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. 2013. University of Dayton, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366385008.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yukevich, Henry. "Between the Black and White Spiders: Anatheism and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." Master's thesis, University of Dayton, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1366385008

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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