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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... Humans in a blossom from Songs oflnnocence (1789), Plate 25. William Blake, 'What is Man!', the frontispiece to For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise. Caterpillars on leaves by Jacob L'Admiral (1774). A tiger from Oliver Goldsmith's An ...
... Humans in a blossom from Songs oflnnocence (1789), Plate 25. William Blake, 'What is Man!', the frontispiece to For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise. Caterpillars on leaves by Jacob L'Admiral (1774). A tiger from Oliver Goldsmith's An ...
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... human species but also more general discourses of natural history permeate Blake's 1790s lyrics. As Ashton Nichols' 'An Empire of Exotic Nature' demonstrates, apparently symbolist lyrics such as 'The Tyger' and 'A Poison Tree' are ...
... human species but also more general discourses of natural history permeate Blake's 1790s lyrics. As Ashton Nichols' 'An Empire of Exotic Nature' demonstrates, apparently symbolist lyrics such as 'The Tyger' and 'A Poison Tree' are ...
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... Humanity, c. 1914) even reminds us ofthe composition ofBlake's Lastjudgment. The year 1919 saw 'The Exhibition of Reproductions from the Works of William Blake: For the Establishment of Shirakaba Art Museum' which exerted a large ...
... Humanity, c. 1914) even reminds us ofthe composition ofBlake's Lastjudgment. The year 1919 saw 'The Exhibition of Reproductions from the Works of William Blake: For the Establishment of Shirakaba Art Museum' which exerted a large ...
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... human beings. His first book Bungaleu Josetsu (An Introduction to Literature) (1922) dealt primarily with the evolution of literary genres of Japanese literature. The book, written by a scholar of English literature, was warmly received ...
... human beings. His first book Bungaleu Josetsu (An Introduction to Literature) (1922) dealt primarily with the evolution of literary genres of Japanese literature. The book, written by a scholar of English literature, was warmly received ...
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... human sexuality: 'Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy! / Why a little curtain offlesh on the bed ofour desire?' (6: 19–20; E 6). IfThel had known what Wadström had in mind for women in his ideal Swedenborgian community, she ...
... human sexuality: 'Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy! / Why a little curtain offlesh on the bed ofour desire?' (6: 19–20; E 6). IfThel had known what Wadström had in mind for women in his ideal Swedenborgian community, she ...
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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