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T1 The Doors to Psychedelic Utopia: William Blake’s Influence on Aldous Huxley’s Evolution from the Dystopian to the Utopian Genre
A1 Caballero del Pozo, Iris
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Blake
K1 Huxley
K1 Psychedelic drugs
K1 Dystopia
K1 Utopia
K1 Mysticism
K1 Drogas psicodélicas
K1 Distopía
K1 Utopía
K1 Misticismo
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB In the context of the American and French Revolutions, the Enlightenment and the increasing industrialization, William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell became a universal manifest in favour of intellectual freedom and an earlier example of religious, political and social criticism. Two centuries later, in a complex period characterized by several international conflicts, economic crisis and the progressive emergence of counterculture movements and avant-garde artistic manifestations, Aldous Huxley similarly denounced the decline of Western civilization due to overpopulation, industrial dehumanization, scientific and technological overuse, cultural censorship and political oppression. Considering both authors have become emblematic figures against totalitarian governments denouncing how Rationalism has been used by the dominant class to discredit alternative ideologies, my purpose in this paper is to determine to what extent Blake’s work influences Huxley’s evolution from the dystopia Brave New World to the utopia Island.
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/63792
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/63792
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-ago-2024