The Reception of Blake in the OrientSteve Clark, Masashi Suzuki This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism (and other Western intellectual movements) have been received in the Orient. |
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... argue for a universal or archetypal Blake, but instead respond to the power of his work to produce novel and unpredictable configurations in radically different cultural and historical contexts from his own. 2 The Orient in Blake In our ...
... argue for a universal or archetypal Blake, but instead respond to the power of his work to produce novel and unpredictable configurations in radically different cultural and historical contexts from his own. 2 The Orient in Blake In our ...
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... argued that spatial demarcations are underpinned by an eroticized racial imaginary; that blackness cannot be dissociated from identification with a fallen state, and that apparently emancipatory exhortations are inevitably conditioned ...
... argued that spatial demarcations are underpinned by an eroticized racial imaginary; that blackness cannot be dissociated from identification with a fallen state, and that apparently emancipatory exhortations are inevitably conditioned ...
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... argued that Blake's work, though overtly committed to a redemptive aesthetic of daybreak, cannot escape from the realm of darkness, and remains formed by that which it denies in ways that render it compatible with the traditions invoked ...
... argued that Blake's work, though overtly committed to a redemptive aesthetic of daybreak, cannot escape from the realm of darkness, and remains formed by that which it denies in ways that render it compatible with the traditions invoked ...
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... argue that Thel's refusal, confirmed 'with a shriek' (6: 21; E 6), tojoin the mode oflife offered to her by Clay, Lilly and Cloud is a specific refusal of Swedenborg's doctrine of conjugal love, a subject topical to contemporary ...
... argue that Thel's refusal, confirmed 'with a shriek' (6: 21; E 6), tojoin the mode oflife offered to her by Clay, Lilly and Cloud is a specific refusal of Swedenborg's doctrine of conjugal love, a subject topical to contemporary ...
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... argued that the near-contemporary Marriage of Heaven and Hell originated as a specifically anti-Swedenborgian pamphlet gathered around a four-plate core. The present author (2000) has also contributed towards figuring something of the ...
... argued that the near-contemporary Marriage of Heaven and Hell originated as a specifically anti-Swedenborgian pamphlet gathered around a four-plate core. The present author (2000) has also contributed towards figuring something of the ...
Contents
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Blake in the Orient The EarlyTwentiethCentury Japanese Reception | 159 |
Blake in the Orient Later Responses | 235 |
Bibliography | 303 |
Index | 337 |
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