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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... particular genealogy of cross - cultural assimilation : that of Japan . It will therefore be appropriate at this point to consider the general context of the early reception history and offer some more detail on figures not covered in ...
... particular genealogy of cross - cultural assimilation : that of Japan . It will therefore be appropriate at this point to consider the general context of the early reception history and offer some more detail on figures not covered in ...
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... particular were not given enough attention in the exhibition catalogue and are not directly treated in the present volume : Kochi Doi ( 1886–1979 ) , Professor of English at the Tohoku Imperial University , and Bunsho Jugaku ( 1900–92 ) ...
... particular were not given enough attention in the exhibition catalogue and are not directly treated in the present volume : Kochi Doi ( 1886–1979 ) , Professor of English at the Tohoku Imperial University , and Bunsho Jugaku ( 1900–92 ) ...
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... particular , and their creative academic activities were often considered to be based upon this dynamism . Nicholas Halmi notes in the introduction to Vol . 14 of Collected Works of Northrop Frye that Frye draws the critical inference ...
... particular , and their creative academic activities were often considered to be based upon this dynamism . Nicholas Halmi notes in the introduction to Vol . 14 of Collected Works of Northrop Frye that Frye draws the critical inference ...
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... Particular emphasis is paid to the para- dox that it was new technologies of reproduction that allowed the circulation of images supposedly produced by autonomous vision ; and to the simultaneous assimilation of Blake with later ...
... Particular emphasis is paid to the para- dox that it was new technologies of reproduction that allowed the circulation of images supposedly produced by autonomous vision ; and to the simultaneous assimilation of Blake with later ...
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... particular offers a densely allusive tessella- tion in Rouse up O ye Young Men of the New Age ( 1983 ) , which is specifically concerned with the difficulties and responsibilities of his relationship with his handicapped son , who both ...
... particular offers a densely allusive tessella- tion in Rouse up O ye Young Men of the New Age ( 1983 ) , which is specifically concerned with the difficulties and responsibilities of his relationship with his handicapped son , who both ...
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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