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English Literature and Linguistics

Course Description	I have studied English Literature and Linguistics at the Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences, Faculty of Arts (ELTE BTK), Department of English Literature and Linguistics (DELL) in Budapest. Due to my deep involvement in philosophy I was more attracted to literature and especially mysticism and mystic poetry. Therefore I have specialized on the British mystics, such as John Milton and William Blake.
William Blake
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Course Description

MA course in English Literature and Linguistics [Autumn 1993 – Autumn 1996 (MA in 2000)]

Master of Arts in English Literature and Linguistics

( Official English translation )

Introductory courses (10 courses. 19 hours)

Code Name of Course Teacher Grade

AN-102/c Language Practice I. Márta Pellérdi A level (5)

AN-104/c Professional Language Use I. Martin Baker A level (5)

AN-106/i Language Practice II. Márta Pellérdi A level (5)

AN-108/a Professional Language Use II. Dr. Walanne Steele A level (5)

AN-111/a Introduction to British-American Literature Prof. Aladár Sarbu C level (3)

AN-112/g Intro to British-American Literature seminar Dóra Csikós A level (5)

AN-121 Intro to British-American Culture & History Tamás Magyarits C level (3)

AN-141 Introduction to English Linguistics Péter Lázár B level (4)

AN-142/j Introduction to English Linguistics seminar Péter Szigetvári B level (4)

AN-199 Intermediate English Language Exam B level (4)

Main courses (24 courses 38 hours)

Code Name of Course Teacher Grade

AN-204/e Language development 1. (Film and Culture) Julie Gray A level (5)

AN-206/f Language development 2. (Journalism) Edit Kontra B level (4)

AN-208/b Language development 3. (Media Studies) Antonia Burrow A level (5)

AN-211 English poetry Dr. Gyõzõ Ferencz B level (4)

AN-212/i English poetry seminar Krisztina Szalay A level (5)

AN-213 English novel and fiction Gizella Kocztur D level (2)

AN-214/g English novel and fiction seminar Judit Friedrich A level (5)

AN-215 English drama Erzsébet Zombory B level (4)

AN-216/c English drama seminar Dóra Csikós A level (5)

AN-221 History of England I. Miklós Lojkó C level (3)

AN-223 History of England II. Andrea Velich C level (3)

AN-231 American Literature Michael Blumenthal A level (5)

AN-232/i American Literature seminar Zsófia Bán A level (5)

AN-233 History of the USA Tamás Magyarits D level (2)

AN-241 English Phonetics and Phonology Törkenczy / Nádasdy D level (2)

AN-242/e English Phonetics and Phonology seminar Péter Siptár C level (3)

AN-243 English Phrasal Syntax László Varga D level (2)

AN-244/g English Phrasal Syntax seminar Lajos Marosán B level (4)

AN-245 English Clausal Syntax Éva Stephanides D level (2)

AN-246/d English Clausal Syntax seminar Péter Lázár C level (3)

AN-251 History of the English Language and Dialects Veronika Kniezsa D level (2)

AN-252/g History of English Lang. and Dialects seminar Ádám Nádasdy D level (2)

AN-261 English Applied Linguistics Judit Zerkowitz D level (2)

AN-299 English Language Comprehensive Exam D level (2)

Specialized courses (13 courses. 22 hours)

Code Name of Course Teacher Grade

AN-312.05 Literature spec. sem. (Guilt and Suffering…) Ildikó Lányi A+ level (5)

AN-322.03 Literature spec. sem. (Multicultural Mosaic) John Drew A level (5)

AN-332.14 American spec. sem. (The Vietnam Syndrome) Tamás Magyarits A level (5)

AN-351.01 Linguistics spec. sem. (History of Spelling.) Veronika Kniezsa A level (5)

AN-352.07 Linguistics spec. sem. (Middle English) Veronika Kniezsa A level (5)

AN-366.12 Spec.sem.1. (19^th century Australian Literature) Carl Whitehouse A level (5)

AN-374.13 Spec.sem.2. (Patrick White) Carl Whitehouse A level (5)

AN-322.09 Spec.sem.3. (Cambridge poetry loft) John Drew A level (5)

AN-322.14 Spec.sem.4. (Pre-Raphaelites – English painting) Éva Péteri A level (5)

AN-312.23 Spec.sem.5. (William Blake) Ágnes Péter A level (5)

AN-312.48 Spec.sem.6. (John Milton - Paradise Lost) Mark Thomas C level (3)

AN-322.19 Spec.sem.7. (The Death of Poetry) Drew & Ferencz A level (5)

AN-500 Dissertation:
"William Blake – The Book of Urizen" A level (5)

AN-501 Comprehensive Final Exam B level (4)

Index No.: XLVI-0884/93

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William Blake - The Book of Urizen

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Introducing William Blake

II. Major Influences

The Romantic period

Protestant mysticism

Political Radicalism

Neoplatonism

Freemasonry and Secret Societies

The New Church

III. The Book of Urizen

The Chapters

Preludium

Chapter I. - Urizen

Chapter II. - Prior to Existence

Chapter III. - Grasping Subsistence

Chapter IV. - Taking form

Chapter V. - Foundations of Life

Chapter VI. - Generation

Chapter VII. - Chains of Being

Chapter VIII. - The Material World

Chapter IX. - The Human Race

Appendix: William Blake - The Book of Urizen

Bibliography

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In my thesis I carry out a close-reading of William Blake’s The Book of Urizen. My analysis observes the accordance between Blake’s work and the hermetic traditions, especially on the philosophical side. In my analyses I draw immediate parallels between Blake’s visionary work and the teachings of various mystic and hermetic traditions and outline the obvious correspondences of the two. My aim is not to find immediate historical or referential links between the poem and the mystic teachings, but to reveal the possible meaning of the visionary epic. I wish to show the connections between Blake's visionary poetry as art and formulated philosophies both depicting the same universal truths. My point is to show the universality of the ideas expressed.

Therefore I draw immediate analogies from the traditions and teachings of Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and Greek mythology, the Sumerian and Persian mythology, Hermetic philosophy, Alchemy and Occultism, the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, and some Eastern examples from Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese philosophy. I also draw parallels with the Bible and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Furthermore, I don't only give a complex analyses of Blake's The Book of Urizen, but also William Blake the visionary mystic. That is why chapters I & II are included. Altogether my work is a tribute to the great master of poetry, William Blake himself – the seer of universal truths.

The Book of Urizen is Blake's Genesis, and the core of his Bible of Hell, re-shaping the Fall and the Creation of the physical universe. It is also the locus for his mythology in 'A Song of Liberty', America, Europe, The Song of Los, The Book of Ahania and The Book of Los, all of which rest on the ideas presented in this poem. Urizen, like Milton's Satan, was an angel enjoying the immoral life, though among democracy of immortals. He is not cast out for rebellion against law, but separates himself by demanding that Law be established. Los, the immortal artist, emerges to define, clarify and make sense of the disaster, by the power of imagination. Blake works in many more allusions. Los becomes Adam, and Enitharmon his Eve. Orc is born to her, like Cain, but also the Serpent.

The storyline of the poem is as follows: Urizen – a god of Reason who separates himself from other Eternals, demands obedience to his self-proclaimed principles, and falls into Chaos – is an abstract, vain and punitive deity. A body is created for him by , 'the eternal prophet' or Divine Imagination. But Los, exhausted, divides into male (Los) and female (Enitharmon). Their child Orc – who represents Rebellious Energy – is born but immediately chained to a rock. Urizen then explores his deadly world, and mankind shrinks up from Eternity. Finally, some of Urizen's children begin an exodus.

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Essays

Available in English:

British-American Culture :

Daniel Tarr : 3 Short Essays on Film : Comedy of the 1920s [(MS Word)« read it ] ; The US in the 1930s [(MS Word) « read it ] ; Harold Pinter - The Dumb Waiter [(MS Word) « read it ]{ELTE DELL}
Daniel Tarr :4 Short Essays : Bright and Beautiful - Environmental Problems [(MS Word) « read it ]; Freedom of Speech [(MS Word) « read it ]; Religion or Faith? [(MS Word)« read it ] ; Capital Punishment [(MS Word)« read it ]{ELTE DELL}
Daniel Tarr :Bias in the Media . [Autumn 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word)« read it ]
Daniel Tarr :'Nam on the Net . [Spring 1996] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word)« read it ]
Daniel Tarr :Nationalism and National Minorities . [Spring 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr :Personal Relationships in the U.S. - based on the films "Manhattan" and "When Harry met Sally" . [Autumn 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr : William Holman Hunt - The Lady of Shalott . [Spring 1996] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word)« read it ]

Linguistics :

Daniel Tarr : Applied Linguistics Glossary . [Autumn 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr : English affixes . [Autumn 1993] {ELTE DELL}
Daniel Tarr : The etymology of paradise, dough, and fiction . [Autumn 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr : Heads (Linguistic difficulties of Percolation) . [Spring 1995] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr : Parts of Speech . [Spring 1995] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr : Stress in the English language . [Autumn 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr : Textual analyses of "Intended Lease for Life" (1420) . [Spring 1996] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word)« read it ]

Literature :

Daniel Tarr : 2 Short Essays on Poetry : Poetic Forms [(MS Word) « read it ] ; The Death of Poetry [(MS Word) « read it ] : Margareth Piercy - Unlearning not to Speak ; Naula Archer - Whale on the Line ; Sidney Keyes - The Gardener ; George Barker - Poem XXVI ; William Carlos Williams - Between Walls ; Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazarus ; [Autumn 1995]
Daniel Tarr : Contemporary British Mosaic (5 short essays) : Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day [(MS Word) « read it ] ; Timothy Mo - Sour Sweet [(MS Word) « read it ] ; John Agard - English Girl Eats Her First Mango [(MS Word) « read it ] ; Stephen Poliakoff - Coming into Land [(MS Word) « read it ] ; Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses [(MS Word) « read it ] [Autumn 1995]
Daniel Tarr : The Psychology of Crime in Edgar Alan Poe's writings . [Autumn 1995] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word)« read it ]
Daniel Tarr : H.P. Lovecraft - The Cthulhu Myth . [Spring 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr : Milton's Paradise Lost - The Fall of Man . [Autumn 1996] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) «read it ]
Daniel Tarr : Percy Bysshe Shelley : Ode to the West Wind . [Autumn 1993] {ELTE DELL}
Daniel Tarr : Walt Whitman - The new era of America . [Autumn 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word)« read it ]
Daniel Tarr : W.B. Yeats -Purgatory . [Spring 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) «read it ]
Daniel Tarr : William Blake - The Book of Urizen . (MA Thesis) [March 2000] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word) « read it ]
Daniel Tarr : William Shakespeare - Sonnet XCIV . [Spring 1994] {ELTE DELL} - [(MS Word)« read it ]

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