Brahma in the West: William Blake and the Oriental Renaissance (Paperback)

by Martin E. Prager (Author), David Weir (Author)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press (August 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0791458180
ISBN-13: 978-0791458181
Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 12 x 1.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 250 g
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"David Weir's approach to Blake's reconstitution of the Indian mythopoetic thought in his own terms--his locating of Blake's vision in terms of Oriental Renaissance--takes into account the history of interpretation of Hindu texts by colonialist and non-colonialist writers of the eighteenth century. As Weir suggests, in many places when the colonialist authors saw 'error and superstition, ' Blake's poetic mind encountered mythic richness. More important is the fact that Weir looks into Blake's own misreadings, locating them historically, and he makes a good case for the legitimacy of misreading as part of cross cultural influence. It is all very fascinating."