@article{1437182,
      recid = {1437182},
      author = {Cogan, Lucy,},
      title = {Blake and the failure of prophecy /},
      pages = {1 online resource (231 pages)},
      abstract = {This monograph reorients discussion of Blake's prophetic  mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense,  but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous  historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and  the reality he was faced with could not be reconciled. At  every stage, Blake's writing confronts the central problem  of all politically minded literature: how texts can become  action. Yet he presents us with no single or, indeed,  conclusive answer to this question and in this sense it can  be said that he fails. Blake, however, never stopped  searching for a way that prophecy might be made to live up  to its promise in the present. The twentieth-century  hermeneuticist Paul Ricoeur shared with Blake a  preoccupation with the relationship between time, text and  action. Ricoeur's hermeneutics thus provide a fresh  theoretical framework through which to analyse Blake's  attempts to fulfil his prophetic purpose.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1437182},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67688-9},
}