03373nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-53254-2 DE-He213 20251030112044.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240516s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031532542 978-3-031-53254-2 10.1007/978-3-031-53254-2 doi PN849.E87-.E872 DS bicssc 1D bicssc LIT004130 bisacsh DS 1D thema Worrall, David. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 76894 William Blake's Visions [electronic resource] : Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia / by David Worrall. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 262 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: The Physiology of Blake’s Hallucinations -- CHAPTER TWO: Perceiving More Than Perception -- CHAPTER THREE: Klüver Form-Constant Visual Hallucinations -- CHAPTER FOUR: Agents Inducing Klüver Visual Hallucinations- CHAPTER FIVE: Blake’s Synaesthesia -- CHAPTER SIX: Blake’s Synaesthesia II: The Visionary Heads -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Blake’s Synaesthesia III: the Testimony of Crabb Robinson -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Discussion and Conclusion. . This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a ‘visionary,’ yet his ‘visions’ have not been discussed. Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake’s visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake’s insanity. David Worrall is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on both William Blake and Eighteenth-Century Theatre. European literature. Literature, Modern 18th century. 75060 Medicine and the humanities. 66324 European Literature. Eighteenth-Century Literature. 75061 Medical Humanities. 66327 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031532535 Printed edition: 9783031532559 Printed edition: 9783031532566 Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, 2634-6443 66328 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53254-2 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 59892 59892