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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... perhaps most striking is the absence of certain preconceptions and dichotomies that structure and restrict the early-twentieth-century reception in Blake's own culture: madnesssanity, poetry–philosophy, accessibility–obscurity ...
... perhaps most striking is the absence of certain preconceptions and dichotomies that structure and restrict the early-twentieth-century reception in Blake's own culture: madnesssanity, poetry–philosophy, accessibility–obscurity ...
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... perhaps more striking, in view of his overall thesis, is the absence of state-sponsored imperialism in the early 1790s, specifically with regard to territorial acquisition; it is the ostensibly oppositional manifestos proliferating out ...
... perhaps more striking, in view of his overall thesis, is the absence of state-sponsored imperialism in the early 1790s, specifically with regard to territorial acquisition; it is the ostensibly oppositional manifestos proliferating out ...
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... perhaps Yanagi and he himself were at first attracted only to Blakean ideas and expressions which they found very similar to those of the mysticism of Buddhism,but that the older he got the less confident he became in his Blake studies ...
... perhaps Yanagi and he himself were at first attracted only to Blakean ideas and expressions which they found very similar to those of the mysticism of Buddhism,but that the older he got the less confident he became in his Blake studies ...
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... perhaps his engraving and copper-plate printing skills which led him to become Anthony Pasquin's printer for his closet drama, The Royal Acadeniicians. A Farce. As it was Performed To the Astonishment ofManleind, by His Majesty's ...
... perhaps his engraving and copper-plate printing skills which led him to become Anthony Pasquin's printer for his closet drama, The Royal Acadeniicians. A Farce. As it was Performed To the Astonishment ofManleind, by His Majesty's ...
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... perhaps this notion of Sierra Leone's botanical fertility which Blake alludes to in what one commentator has called The Boole of Thel's 'fable of flowers' and which is illustrated in recognizable depictions of amaryllis formosissima ...
... perhaps this notion of Sierra Leone's botanical fertility which Blake alludes to in what one commentator has called The Boole of Thel's 'fable of flowers' and which is illustrated in recognizable depictions of amaryllis formosissima ...
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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