Blood and Blood Vessels in Blake's Poetry and Visual Art.

这个项目总共花了两年的时间来研究威廉·布莱克在他的语言和视觉艺术中赋予“血”相当独特的意义。我澄清，在18世纪的英国，血液被视为一种滋养液，经常与一代人联系在一起，布莱克发展了自己的血液作为性中心的概念。在布莱克的预言诗如《乌里岑书》、《四个佐亚》和《耶路撒冷》中，一滴血变成了女性的形式，象征着一个女人的诞生。在这个意义上，血液是性别的，成为女性的一部分。在布莱克的作品中，不仅血液，而且血管都与性密切相关。血管经常从人体中射出，每当这种对物理边界的侵犯发生时，就标志着男性和女性之间为掌握权力而展开的性战。我在布莱克的作品中关于血管的分析以日文发表在《布莱克的复合艺术中的血液》(筑波英国文学，第5卷，1999，第86 110页)和布莱克的女性的重新愿景(东京：Sairyu-ash2001,315+13页)中。我还计划在2001年5月日本英语文学协会举办的一次研讨会上口头介绍这项研究成果。

The total of two years of this project were spent in examining the quite unique meaning that William Blake gave to "blood" in his verbal and visual art. I clarified that blood was regarded as a nurturing liquid and was frequently related to generation in eighteenth-century England, and that Blake developed his own idea of blood as a locus of sexuality.A drop of blood transforms into a female form, signaling the birth of a woman in Blake's prophetic poems such as The Book of Urizen, Four Zoas and Jerusalem. The blood in this sense is gendered, becoming part of the female. Not only blood but blood vessels are deeply connected with sexuality in Blake's works. The vessels often shoot out of the human bodies and, whenever such violation of the physical boundaries happens, signals sexual battle between male and female to possess power.What I analyzed in Blake's works in relation to blood and vessels is published in Japanese in "Blood in Blake's Composite Art" (Tsukuba English Literature, Vol. 5, 1999, pp.86 110) and Blake's Re-Vision of the Female (Tokyo : Sairyu-sha, 2001, 315+13 pages). I am also planning to make an oral presentation of the research result in a symposium held in May 2001 by the English Literary Society of Japan.