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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... become: in Blake's own words, 'And tho I call them Mine I know they are not Mine' (to Dr Trusler 16 August 1799; E701). Interaction with the interpretative horizons of future audiences matters at least as much as the original context of ...
... become: in Blake's own words, 'And tho I call them Mine I know they are not Mine' (to Dr Trusler 16 August 1799; E701). Interaction with the interpretative horizons of future audiences matters at least as much as the original context of ...
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... become a distinguished scholar of English literature, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927),who would later become one of the greatest writers in Japan. For the title-page design of the first issue of the journal, Blake's 'The Ancient of ...
... become a distinguished scholar of English literature, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927),who would later become one of the greatest writers in Japan. For the title-page design of the first issue of the journal, Blake's 'The Ancient of ...
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... becomes the redemptive ideal that is the culmination of a mock - epic pilgrimage , whose mythological coinages and conceptual neologisms ( often cited as evidence of obscurity if not derangement ) become immediate and accessible points ...
... becomes the redemptive ideal that is the culmination of a mock - epic pilgrimage , whose mythological coinages and conceptual neologisms ( often cited as evidence of obscurity if not derangement ) become immediate and accessible points ...
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... become an immediate resource for the practising artist.18 This section of the book focuses on Yanagi and his contemporaries as an impressive modernist avant-garde (what might facetiously but not altogether inaccurately be termed ...
... become an immediate resource for the practising artist.18 This section of the book focuses on Yanagi and his contemporaries as an impressive modernist avant-garde (what might facetiously but not altogether inaccurately be termed ...
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... becomes the occasion for a potential undoing of the division between Europe and what it sets up as ' other ' , and ... become apparent . In a European context , the move- ment derives from French situationism ( see Debord 1967 , 2002 ) ...
... becomes the occasion for a potential undoing of the division between Europe and what it sets up as ' other ' , and ... become apparent . In a European context , the move- ment derives from French situationism ( see Debord 1967 , 2002 ) ...
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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