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“Art Thou but a Worm?” Blake and the Question Concerning Taxonomy
2012
Overview
This chapter focuses on William Blake’s textual oeuvre about worms. They range from earthworm, glowworm, silkworm, and tapeworm to the more generic worm and its adjectival derivative, wormy. Understanding the Blakean worm, in its varied and variable applications, suggests a fluidity of form and sense working against reification while yet depending expressly on it. Analyzing the worm as an aesthetic figure made to represent the material consequences of existing in nature, the chapter demonstrates how and why the presentation of worms in Blake’s poetry gives way to a positive aesthetic of decay. The worm sutures the phases of decay and generation in such a way as to call attention to perpetual process as a defining characteristic of life.
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University of Minnesota Press
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ISBN
9780816673209, 0816673209
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