{"product_id":"9783031965739","title":"Blake’s Word: Learning to Read, Inner Speech, and the Unsayable","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBlake’s Word: Learning to Read, Inner Speech, and the Unsayable\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eCooper, Andrew M.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"\u003eThis book explores how William Blake conceived the act of reading as an imaginative activation of Jesus the Word, the anonymous, unsayable potency of language that underlies speech. Through illuminated printing, Blake sought to incarnate this Word by re-educating his late-Enlightened audience in the fundamentals of reading – not through morality tales but at the level of physiology and synaesthesia where \u003cspan style=\"color: black; background: white;\"\u003eseen writing is turned into meaningful mental sounds. By wrongfooting the \u003c\/span\u003eautomaticity of skilled adult parsing, \u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eBlake’s grammar and syntax\u003c\/span\u003e restore \u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003ea \u003c\/span\u003ecognitive\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003e element of anticipation to semiotic decoding and prophetically open the immediate future to interpretation. Such \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #3b3d3f; background: white;\"\u003espeaking-forth of the divine unsayability not only \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003ecritiques 18th-century Deism’s God-given “language of nature,” it also sometimes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #3b3d3f; background: white;\"\u003eskirts unreadability. Therefore, as this study demonstrates, Blake strove hard to develop his reading program in relation to a range of well-known philosophers including Plato and Bacon, Berkeley and Hume, Swedenborg and Rousseau, whose ideas on cognition and language his work casts in a new light even today. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2026-01-08\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783031965739\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-96574-6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 290\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44309915926668,"sku":"9783031965739","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783031965739.jpg?v=1774144751","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783031965739","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}