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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... suggests that she is 'Anti-conjugal'. Thel's recent editors note that 'the Cloud extols the pleasures of sex', or what Wadström or Swedenborg might call the 'Conjugal Life', but Thel's rejection is adamant: 'I fear I am not like thee ...
... suggests that she is 'Anti-conjugal'. Thel's recent editors note that 'the Cloud extols the pleasures of sex', or what Wadström or Swedenborg might call the 'Conjugal Life', but Thel's rejection is adamant: 'I fear I am not like thee ...
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... suggest 'the utopian valency of its method of unpresentability' (Williams 1998: 219). Indeed, Thel's predicament in 1789 appears to have been precisely the apparent imminence of her presentability and even, quite conceivably, Catherine ...
... suggest 'the utopian valency of its method of unpresentability' (Williams 1998: 219). Indeed, Thel's predicament in 1789 appears to have been precisely the apparent imminence of her presentability and even, quite conceivably, Catherine ...
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... suggests , the typical Egyptian imagery of the pyramids ' emblematise [ s ] the not - human in Blake's texts ' ( Paley 1983 : 189 ) . As Paley further notes , the ' pyramids of pride ' ( Jerusalem 91 : 43 E 252 ) form a representative ...
... suggests , the typical Egyptian imagery of the pyramids ' emblematise [ s ] the not - human in Blake's texts ' ( Paley 1983 : 189 ) . As Paley further notes , the ' pyramids of pride ' ( Jerusalem 91 : 43 E 252 ) form a representative ...
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... suggest that we can infer that Blake might have intended to imply , within the form of the seducer figure of Typhon , the idea of a false god deriving from the mythology – an idea which might have been developed through Blake's own ...
... suggest that we can infer that Blake might have intended to imply , within the form of the seducer figure of Typhon , the idea of a false god deriving from the mythology – an idea which might have been developed through Blake's own ...
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... suggest that the sun/ moon image on Albion's thighs can be associated with a Master-Mason's apron.” Interestingly, when we superimpose the image of a Freemasonry apron onto the position ofAlbion's thighs, it can be interpreted that he ...
... suggest that the sun/ moon image on Albion's thighs can be associated with a Master-Mason's apron.” Interestingly, when we superimpose the image of a Freemasonry apron onto the position ofAlbion's thighs, it can be interpreted that he ...
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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