The Reception of Blake in the Orient

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9007-0
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Continuum Reception Studies

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. As such it combines a broad variety of postcolonial perspectives with specific histories of Blake's assimilation in the region, and offers a case-study of the way in which the vigorous afterlife of Blake's work has allowed active appropriation of a still inspiring presence rather than passive succumbing to a Eurocentric or Orientalist ideology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Steve

Suzuki, Masashi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Clark is Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo.

Masashi Suzuki is Professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University and is President of the Japan Association of English Romanticism