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Singapore Literature and Culture
Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically. And yet there have been few books solely focused on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time, embedding it more closely within literary developments worldwide. Drawing upon postcolonial studies, Singapore studies, and critical discussions in transnationalism and globalization, essays here unearth and introduce neglected writers, cast new light on established writers, and examine texts in relation to their specific Singaporean local-historical contexts while also engaging with contemporary issues in Singapore society. Singaporean writers are producing work informed by debates and trends in queer studies, feminism, multiculturalism and social justice-work that urgently calls for scholarly engagement. This groundbreaking collection of essays aims to set new directions for further scholarship in this exciting and various body of writing from a place that, despite being just a small red dot on the global map, has much to say to scholars and students worldwide interested in issues of nationalism, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, neoliberalism, immigration, urban space, as well as literary form and content. This book brings Singapore literature and literary criticism into greater global legibility and charts pathways for future developments.
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The Uncollected Letters of William Blake
This essay focuses on the most recently unearthed letter by William Blake—one that is known but has hitherto been inadequately discussed. Blake’s letter illustrates how aspects of the correspondence, previously considered mundane, in fact can play a crucial role in unearthing key minute particulars and ultimately bringing into fuller focus Blake’s life and work. At the same time, the ever-increasing corpus of Blake letters little addressed by researchers underlines the need for a revised and fully annotated, historically and biographically attuned scholarly edition of the correspondence of the artist, poet, and printmaker.
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'I write in South Molton Street, what I both \see\ and \hear\ : reconstructing William and Catherine Blake's residence and studio at 17 South Molton Street, Oxford Street
The author offers an account of William and Catherine Blake's living and working environment at 17 South Molton Street in London, where they lived from 1803 to 1821. Contemporary records and references in Blake biography and scholarship relating to the residence are re-examined in light of new data gleaned from a survey of the present physical structure. A historically accurate architectural reconstruction is provided.
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Went to see Blake – also to Surgeons college
G.E. Bentley Jr is best known for his pioneering biographical and bibliographical research concerning the life and work of William Blake. However, over the past fifty years Bentley’s research has regularly travelled beyond Blake, and has resulted in a series of publications concerned with members of Blake’s circle, throwing much needed light on the figures themselves as well as their relations with the poet-painter. These figures include Blake’s fellow apprentice and business partner James Parker, his patron Thomas Butts, and the engraver and entrepreneur Robert Hartley Cromek.¹ As Keri Davies has observed, members of Blake’s circle while ‘not in the
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The Arlington Court Picture: A surviving example of William Blake's framing practice
English Re-examines forgotten information relating to the context of the framing and commission or purchase of William Blake's painting The Arlington Court Picture, also known as Sea of Time and Space. Exlores new data relating to the frame and to the early provenance of the work which supports the suggestion that Blake was probably involved in the choice of frame through his friend and patron John Linnell, and the framer of the painting, James Linnell.
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\Free to be inconsistent\. Review article
M. D. Paley, \"The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake\". A recent biographer has suggested Blake's last years were a period of serenity. Paley's study of the last works Blake produced reveals another side of the poet-artist. A key theme of his book is how Blake's later works reveal a \"temperamental affinity\" with Gnosticism or Manichaeism, which Paley suggests may explain the darker, more polarised world often portrayed in these works. Focusing on eight prominent examples of poetry, art, and thought, Paley demonstrates their distinctiveness and their connections with earlier works. This is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the neglected later works, and also reveals how much work remains to be done on Blake. (Quotes from original text)
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