Be Sure to Close Your Eyes

Be Sure to Close Your Eyesis a novel about the nature, origins, and vicissitudes of vision and the visionary experience, especially in relation to the arts. Hood, of course, had already examined this phenomenon in some detail inA New Athens, centring upon the work of May-Beth Codrington, but here, i...

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Published inCanadian Odyssey p. 146
Main Author W.J. KEITH
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published MQUP 11.03.2002
Subjects
Abstract art
Anatomy
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Art genres and movements
Art history
Artists
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Biomes
Body regions
Communications
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Ecology
Economic disciplines
Economics
Ecosystems
Employment
Eyes
Fiction
Grasslands
Head
Holidays
Jazz
Labor economics
Literary genres
Literature
Music
Music genres
Musicians
Narratives
Novels
Occupations
Pentecost
Performing arts
Popular music
Prairies
Religious holidays
Social sciences
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Summary:Be Sure to Close Your Eyesis a novel about the nature, origins, and vicissitudes of vision and the visionary experience, especially in relation to the arts. Hood, of course, had already examined this phenomenon in some detail inA New Athens, centring upon the work of May-Beth Codrington, but here, in a novel that takes us further back in time than any other book in the series, he considers the circumstances that led to May-Beth’s blossoming as an artist of a particular kind. Indeed, this book is Hood’s contribution to the genre of theKünstlerroman, a novel about the
ISBN:0773523448
9780773523449
DOI:10.1515/9780773570085-014