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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... means, electronic,mechanical,photocopying or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN ...
... means, electronic,mechanical,photocopying or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN ...
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... means what it will 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 ...
... means what it will 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 ...
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... the striking counterpart, 'Yameru Bara', which means 'the sick rose'. It is thus mostly as a poet that Blake was first introduced and accepted in Japan. It seems, however, Harold Bloom's 'anxiety of influence' was Introduction 5.
... the striking counterpart, 'Yameru Bara', which means 'the sick rose'. It is thus mostly as a poet that Blake was first introduced and accepted in Japan. It seems, however, Harold Bloom's 'anxiety of influence' was Introduction 5.
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... means of commentary and critical analysis. Particular attention will be paid to Blake as an embodiment of the European romantic sublime, and ways in which specific critiques seek to utilize or contain the force of his texts. The ...
... means of commentary and critical analysis. Particular attention will be paid to Blake as an embodiment of the European romantic sublime, and ways in which specific critiques seek to utilize or contain the force of his texts. The ...
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... mean the attachment of one unmarried Man to one free Woman, and simply Concubinage, which under certain regulations never ought to be forbidden in a Free State/36 However, Wadström didn't entirely rule it out for his 'Free State ...
... mean the attachment of one unmarried Man to one free Woman, and simply Concubinage, which under certain regulations never ought to be forbidden in a Free State/36 However, Wadström didn't entirely rule it out for his 'Free State ...
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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