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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... Poems, E 665), Blake is shown as both willing to incorporate recent scientific data and to dramatize and contest its latent structures of colonial power. The degree of access to imperial knowledge is explored by Hikari Sato in 'Blake ...
... Poems, E 665), Blake is shown as both willing to incorporate recent scientific data and to dramatize and contest its latent structures of colonial power. The degree of access to imperial knowledge is explored by Hikari Sato in 'Blake ...
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... poem as to write 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 ...
... poem as to write 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 ...
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... poems have appeared since then, but a complete translation of his whole poems and prose works had to wait until 1989 when Narumi Umetsu (1917–96) published Bureiku Zen Chosaku (The Complete Translation of William Blake's Works) in two ...
... poems have appeared since then, but a complete translation of his whole poems and prose works had to wait until 1989 when Narumi Umetsu (1917–96) published Bureiku Zen Chosaku (The Complete Translation of William Blake's Works) in two ...
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... Poem Milton' (1943), Doi traced the influences on Blake of the glories and miseries of the French Revolution in early-nineteenth-century England, with reference to history and myths, and succeeded in offering a version of Blake ...
... Poem Milton' (1943), Doi traced the influences on Blake of the glories and miseries of the French Revolution in early-nineteenth-century England, with reference to history and myths, and succeeded in offering a version of Blake ...
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... poetic influences. 6 The Sierra Leone project is also analysed at length (though without Blakean inflections) by Deidre Coleman, in Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery (2005). See especially Weir 2003. 8 More than 100 items ...
... poetic influences. 6 The Sierra Leone project is also analysed at length (though without Blakean inflections) by Deidre Coleman, in Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery (2005). See especially Weir 2003. 8 More than 100 items ...
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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