We are entering two weeks where the following two creations are going to be explored and contrasted. Blake’s Illustrations to the Book of Job are one of the most extraordinary sacred documents in which a poet/ artist reinterprets one of the most ancient and well-known classic religious texts along the lines of his own unique…
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Wishing you all a fruitful lecture-free week!
This last week we again brought drama into our experience of literature. Drama can bring the insights of literature directly into our bodies as we work to make the lines and ideas breathe and move. And what a fabulous feasts of dramatists we have in Australian Literature (from Louis Esson through to Chi Vu). I…
Week 8
Week 8 brings Blake’s illustrations to the Book of Job into focus (for Blake students). This is an extraordinary series of etchings which expresses the heart of Blake’s revisioning of Christianity from a religion controlled by human morality (Good and Evil) to a religion open to the mystery of creation. How Blake achieves this is…

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