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Zusatztext "This book is based on the Conference ‘Blake in the Orient', held at Kyoto University, Japan on 29 and 30 November 2003 and though all the papers read there are not printed here the contributors amount to no less than 25...while the variety of contributors and contents makes it rather difficult to give an instant overview, every effort should be made to review these ambitious attempts to form a bridge between East and West in Blake scholarship. According to editors Steve Clark and Masashi Suzuki, it aims to approach current Post-Colonialist issues, among others, how Blake responded to the ideologies of Imperialism...It seeks to overcome insular celebration of the poet as essentially English and consider how his work is assimilated outside Britain and Europe with Japan for its central focus...In Afterword Elinor Shaffer emphasizes the significance of this volume and the Kyoto Conference on Blake, out of which it emerged, as an exemplary record of encounters between east and West for more than 100 years and as ‘a permanent reminder of the unpredictable fertility of a major writer, at home and abroad'...This book, as has been hinted, cannot be considered a strictly coherent whole whose parts are closely connected with each other, but rather it consists of essays very difference in tone as well as in content. Instead of being necessarily a negative aspect, however, this reflects Blake's fertility inspiring, to borrow Shafer's words, ‘other minds in other times, other words and other image'. We should admire the editors' efforts to organize so diverse materials into a book..." - Akira Fujimaki, Studies in English Literature, No. 49, 2008 Informationen zum Autor 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 ex-President of the Japan Association of English Romanticism Klappentext Focuses attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake's reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. This book offers a case-study of the way in which the vigorous afterlife of Blake's work has allowed active appropriation of an inspiring presence, rather than passive succumbing to a Eurocentric or Orientalist ideology.> Vorwort Focuses attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake's reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. This book offers a case-study of the way in which the vigorous afterlife of Blake's work has allowed active appropriation of an inspiring presence, rather than passive succumbing to a Eurocentric or Orientalist ideology. Zusammenfassung Focuses attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake's reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. This book offers a case-study of the way in which the vigorous afterlife of Blake's work has allowed active appropriation of an inspiring presence, rather than passive succumbing to a Eurocentric or Orientalist ideology. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction, Steve Clark (University of Tokyo) and Masashi Suzuki (Kyoto University) Part I: The Orient in Blake: The Global Eighteenth Century 2 Thel in Africa: William Blake and the Post-colonial, Post-Swedenborgian Female Subject, David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University) 3 'Typhon, the lower nature': Blake and Egypt as the Orient, Kazuya Okada (Okayama University) 4 Rebekah Bliss: Collector of William Blake and Oriental Books, Keri Davies (The Blake Society) 5 Blake and the Chinamen, Mei-Ying Sung (Nottingham Trent University) 6 Colour Printing in the West and East: William Blake and Ukiyo-e, Minne Tanaka 7 Representing Race: The Meaning of Colour and Line in William Blake's 1790s Bodies, Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University) 8 Africa and Utopia: Refusing a 'local habitation', Susan Matthews (University of Roehampton) 9 An Empire o...
