The Marriage of


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Well I thought that it would be wise to dedicate this week's entry to Behrendt's essay that we are supposed to refer to in our Blake essay. Behrendt refers to a "third text" in Blake's illuminated books.  He says that relation between the visual and verbal text generates a "third text" or "meta-text". He calls it a "third text" because it is not ( Read more... )

The Marriage of


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Mary, Mary Quite Contrary!!


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This week we looked at a beautiful little poem from The Songs of Innocence called “The Little Black Boy”. The sad perspective that the child presents is one of racial discrimination of which he has obviously been a subject by his mother and surely other social influences (probably the “whites”). He feels as though he needs to justify his skin ( Read more... )

The Shenanigans of Charmagne.

Damn this mascara! You’d think after $47.95 and corporations spending millions of dollars in brush technology, someone could come up with a mascara that was tear-proof. Why does a woman have to end up looking like a black-and-white cat-foot every time she tries to chop an onion? Now I’m going to have to start again. I ( Read more... )

The Shenanigans of Charmagne.

Damn this mascara! You’d think after $47.95 and corporations spending millions of dollars in brush technology, someone could come up with a mascara that was tear-proof. Why does a woman have to end up looking like a black-and-white cat-foot every time she tries to chop an onion? Now I’m going to have to start again. ( Read more... )

Visual Literacy in Blake's Art
I know this is an anachronismbut I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I wonder if we could apply Kress and Van Leuhen’s framework of visual literacy to Blake’s paintings. We have recently been studying this in English C & T and I often try to look for vectors, salient features and symbolic colouring in Blake’s art ( Read more... )