A Backward Glance O'er the (Dis)United States: William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Authentic American Religion

Elliott, Clare

doi:10.1386/ejac.28.1.75_1

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“…This suggests that individuals will always look for those who share their views no matter how much love they receive. A subtle jab at bias and its tendency to divide rather than bring people together (Elliott, 2009).…”

Section: William Blake and Racismmentioning

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تفكيك الآخر أو تمكين العنصرية: إعادة النظر في الفتى الأسود الصغير لويليام بليك

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2024

مجلة کلية الآداب بقنا

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This paper examines William Blake's poem "Little Black Boy" through the lens of deconstruction theory. It aims to uncover the underlying contradictions and power dynamics within the poem and the socio-cultural context of 18th-century British society. While the poem ostensibly challenges racial hierarchies and advocates against the oppression of marginalized communities, this study argues that it inadvertently reinforces systemic prejudice. Through a comprehensive text analysis, including linguistic choices, metaphoric expressions, and paradoxical elements, the paper reveals Blake's deep-rooted racism and prejudice. The literature review explores various scholarly perspectives on the poem's treatment of racial otherness, highlighting the debate between challenging stereotypes and unintentionally perpetuating them. By engaging with differing viewpoints, this paper encourages a nuanced understanding of Blake's work within the broader discourse on race and representation in literature. Ultimately, it seeks to shed light on the complexities of Blake's poem, emphasizing its potential for resistance and transformative possibilities while questioning the extent to which it successfully dismantles prevailing notions of racism and otherness.

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Section: William Blake and Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

تفكيك الآخر أو تمكين العنصرية: إعادة النظر في الفتى الأسود الصغير لويليام بليك

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2024

مجلة کلية الآداب بقنا

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“…Исследователи культурных аллюзий в творчестве Блейка достаточно обоснованно говорят о присутствии в его мифологии культурно преломленных элементов индийской космогонии и буддийской картины мира [Clark, Suzuki, 2006;Barlow, 2011;Atkinson, 2019]; об осмыслении им судеб Америки [Elliott, 2009;Freedman, 2018]. В этот ряд попадает и Россия: Блейк не слишком хорошо знал ее географию, но не мог не слышать о ее роли в европейской истории, и, по всей видимости, включал ее переосмысленных правителей в свой миф о революции и тиранстве: в политике конца XVIII в. не было правительницы, которая больше воплощала бы концепцию важной для Блейка женской власти, чем Екатерина II.…”

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«Russian Theme» in William Blake’s Works

Serdechnaia¹

2020

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The article is devoted to the factors and evidences of William Blake’s interest in Russia, Russian places and politicians. An analysis of Blake’s works, especially his prophetic poems, confirm that Russia, Russian territories, and in particular the Russian Empress Catherine II, were interesting to Blake and were manifested in many ways in his works. Blake counts Russia and its territories in his great prophecies Milton and Jerusalem. The mention of Poland and Siberia, Tartaria, and Russia separately indicates that the spiritual geography of Blake’s works did not exactly correspond to the current administrative division of the world. There is a reason to believe that the image of the Russian Empress Catherine II was for Blake the embodiment of the sinister Female Will and became a model for the harlot of Babylon, captured by him in a portrait of 1809, as well as one of the prototypes of the powerful demiurge-spinner Enitharmon in prophetic poems. In politics, the end of the XVIII century, there was no ruler who would more embody the concept of female power than Catherine II.

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Blake Studies in the 21st Century

Serdechnaia¹

2021

Studia Litterarum

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The author summarizes Blake studies of the 21st century. The beginning of the modern era of Blake studies can be considered with the paradigm of deconstruction. At the end of the 20th century, synthetic analysis took a special place in Blake studies, when Blake’s illuminated books were studied as an inseparable unity of verbal and visual. Blake’s legacy has undergone a significant evolution related to deconstruction and postmodern approaches, and linguistic research. The development of traditional areas of research, such as psychoanalysis, textual criticism of manuscripts, religious and mystical allusions, and comparative studies is also traced. Postmodernism, which owes much to the Romanticism (i.e. the concept of irony, fragmentation, the category of the exalted, the original lonely hero), brought new features to Blake studies and greatly contributed to its approval among canonical authors of the Romanticism. In modern Blake studies, such areas as gender studies, postcolonial studies, studies in digital reality environments are most actively developing. Starting from the 2000s, the main direction in Blake studies has become reception, that is, the cultural influence of Blake’s writings on later culture, including the culture of other countries: poetry, literature, music and cinema. Each new era reveals fundamentally similar features and adds meanings to Blake: this process is going from symbolism and psychoanalysis to the present day.

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A Backward Glance O'er the (Dis)United States: William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Authentic American Religion

Abstract: This article begins with a brief consideration of the resurgence of religious rhetoric as currently used by George W. Bush. It discusses this alongside what Harold Bloom terms an '

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تفكيك الآخر أو تمكين العنصرية: إعادة النظر في الفتى الأسود الصغير لويليام بليك

تفكيك الآخر أو تمكين العنصرية: إعادة النظر في الفتى الأسود الصغير لويليام بليك

«Russian Theme» in William Blake’s Works

Blake Studies in the 21st Century

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