101582 20210507111429.0 sideral 123554 ART-2017-123554 eng Onega Jaén, Susana Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-1672-4276 “In Blake’s Shadow": the visionary element in the fiction of Peter Ackroyd and Jeanette Winterson 2017 Starting from Hal Foster’s distinction of a humanist and an anti-humanist trend within postmodernism, the essay goes on to argue that, although materialist critics tend to see Peter Ackroyd’s and Jeanette Winterson’s writings as examples of an experimentalist postmodernism characterised by metafictional playfulness and ideological depthlessness, in fact they respond to a well-thought out visionary aesthetics, whose roots go back to the supernatural conception of art and literature inaugurated by Plato and continued by Dante, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton, that reached a climax in the Romantic aesthetics that runs from Blake, Wordsworth, Novalis and Goethe to Yeats and Eliot. By reading Ackroyd’s and Winterson’s fictional works and manifestoes from this visionary perspective, the article seeks to demonstrate that the parodic undermining of visionary motifs and the antimimetic insistence on the textuality of the created worlds that are recurrent feature of their works echo both Blake’s conception of the creative imagination and the paradoxical leap of faith in transcendence that lies at the heart of his visionary aesthetics. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-84258-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2015-65775-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ/JIUZ-2017-HUM-02 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 7, 2 (2017), 4-25 Atilim. Sos. Bilim. derg. Atilim Sosyal Bilimer Dergisi 2146-6181 https://www.atilim.edu.tr/en/press/page/3199/atilim-sosyal-bilimler-dergisi Texto completo de la revista 413698 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/101582/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 250213 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/101582/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:101582 articulos driver 2021-05-07-08:15:51 ARTICLE