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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... seem an unlikely location for William Blake , a notorious non- traveller , whose visionary flights from Ireland to Japan ' in Jerusalem ( 67.8 ; E 177 ) 1 contrast with the more mundane fact of never having physically journeyed more ...
... seem an unlikely location for William Blake , a notorious non- traveller , whose visionary flights from Ireland to Japan ' in Jerusalem ( 67.8 ; E 177 ) 1 contrast with the more mundane fact of never having physically journeyed more ...
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... seem entirely separate, particularly with the self-iinposed isolation of Edo Japan (saleoleu), yet at precisely the same historical conjuncture, they both offer comparable solutions to the technical problems of the medium, and dramatize ...
... seem entirely separate, particularly with the self-iinposed isolation of Edo Japan (saleoleu), yet at precisely the same historical conjuncture, they both offer comparable solutions to the technical problems of the medium, and dramatize ...
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... 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.
... 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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Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki. Japan. It seems, however, Harold Bloom's 'anxiety of influence' was not much of an issue inJapanese literary history. Several collections of the Japanese translations of Blake's poems have appeared since then ...
Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki. Japan. It seems, however, Harold Bloom's 'anxiety of influence' was not much of an issue inJapanese literary history. Several collections of the Japanese translations of Blake's poems have appeared since then ...
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... seems likely Blake would have been aware of the discussions concerning conjugal love which created the London schism . He could have read Swedenborg directly in Denew's edition . If Blake knew of Wadström's Plan For A Free Community in ...
... seems likely Blake would have been aware of the discussions concerning conjugal love which created the London schism . He could have read Swedenborg directly in Denew's edition . If Blake knew of Wadström's Plan For A Free Community in ...
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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