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Accettura, Sara Ann. |
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Youngstown State University. Department of English. |
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2021-05-18T13:56:59Z |
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dc.date.available |
2021-05-18T13:56:59Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2005 |
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dc.identifier.other |
B19721559 |
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dc.identifier.other |
61173430 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://jupiter.ysu.edu:443/record=b1972155 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1989/16281 |
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dc.description |
78 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
Thesis (M.A.)--Youngstown State University, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-78). |
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dc.description.abstract |
William Blake is well-known as a visionary poet, but his visions have yet to be explained outside of being mystical or imaginative experiences. According to Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, people are able to reach self-actualization, or a level of which all of their needs are met. Self-actualizing people are simply high-functioning human beings, according to Maslow. A few characteristics of those functioning at this level include creativity, uniqueness, the need for justice, and most importantly, peak experiences. Peak-experiences were defined by Maslow as times when one feels deeply connected to everything and claims to see things as they truly are. I believe peak experiences to be the spaces form which Blake experienced his visions. I will be comparing Blake's visions and his personality traits to Maslow's definitions of peak-experiences and self-actualization in order to who that Blake's visions now have a category. |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Youngstown State University. Department of English. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Master's Theses;no. 0850 |
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dc.subject |
Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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dc.title |
When mystics have prophets for dinner : a critical biographical analysis of William Blake's visions using Abraham Mastlow's [i.e. Maslow's] theories of self-actualization and peak-experiences |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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