this book argues that William Blake's last major poem, Jerusalem, possesses a narrative structure. this argument runs contray to the critical consensus that sees the poem as possessing a 'synchronic' Structure in which the events of the poem all occur simultaneously rather than sequentially.
Foreword
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Nelson Hilton
Acknowledgments
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Introduction: A Community of Readers and the Pull of Narrative
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Chapter 1 The Problems of Synchrony
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Chapter 2 Significant Events: The Narrative of Jerusalem
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Chapter 3 The Disappearing Context Trick: Blake's Rhetoric of Discontinuity
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Chapter 4 A Choice of Gods: Discourses of Divinity and Friendship
