... in the camps, he gathered material for his poems and scholarly works. Despite the vividness and the factuality of Adler's work, it was given less attention than it deserves. The chapter describes Adler's contribution to the debates in post-war aesthetics. There are several worthwhile reasons for considering...

..., given that garden festivals are essentially self-contained processes that do not always reflect, or follow, local planning policies. The chapter also attempts to cull from selected projects innovative or validating aesthetics of the spatial aspects of the urban experience. Given that there can...

...Mottram and Clason take as their departure point the aesthetic that, in the wake of Kant, was constructed or assembled to mediate between sense perception and meaning, theory and praxis. Through close readings of texts by Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, and E.T.A Hoffmann, they argue...

...Robert E. Mottram puts E.T.A. Hoffmann’s late tale “My Cousin’s Corner Window” into dialogue with both Kantian and Schillerian aesthetics by arguing that the tale harbors a double narrative impulse, which he elucidates as an interplay between what he terms the “theory of theater” and the “theater...

...This chapter presents some excerpts from A. Litvin's Yidishe neshomes (Jewish Souls). The first deals with the Jew and the ‘look-box’. There is a very large portion of the Jewish masses for whom the entire world of aesthetics, beauty, and art is unknown. The Jewish folk artist...

.... In the final part, the hybrid identity and aesthetics that have been accentuated in Apichatpong's cinema is analysed by using both textual and contextual methods. Iordanova Dina Naficy Hamid beur cinema Phromkhuntong Wikanda subaltern subalternity superalternity Cannes Chan Eric Field Simon Gaweewong...

... spaces around them and to articulate their experiences. It also provides a series of case studies that embody or explore points of tension and intersections between cultural identity, cultural history, cartography, and aesthetics in Galician writing of the democratic period. The first two chapters...

...This chapter, which examines a true collaboration between writer and photographer, focusing on French-Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun and his photo-text projects – Fès (1996) with Bruno Barbey and Medinas (1998) with Jean Marc Tingaud – considers aesthetics...

... of being. I situate this history of intellectual love within the contemporary context of ‘the affective turn’ in the humanities and social sciences, as well as recent work in aesthetic theory associated with the Frankfurt School. Abrams M H Beaty Frederick love aesthetics affect theory De Rougemont...

... and restlessness, surface and depth. Drawing upon recent work by Denis Cosgrove and John Wylie on the geographies of vision, as well as Nicholson's own writings on landscape aesthetics, this essay explores how such tensions can be identified in the poet's transcription of the perceptual experience of seeing...

..."The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either directly involved in the debate about the colonial past and its remanence (J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paule...

..., identity, sexuality, and politics. ‘Tingaling’, is a compelling description of the aesthetics of Carnival and its relationship to the urban environment. The piece prompts us to consider Carnival as an ecological project. The narrative reveals how the ecological transformations through...

...This chapter explores the question of aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's writing by relating it to Alfred North Whitehead's notion of the “event” and Gilles Deleuze's concept of the “fold” through a reading of Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). Deleuze, via Whitehead, proposes four...

...This chapter examines the question of aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's contradictory discussion of mind and body in “On Being Ill” (1926). In particular, it considers the importance of taking seriously the aesthetic dimension of contemporary illness narratives by linking Woolf's “On Being Ill...

...’ to think with. Using postcolonial intellectual and methodological resources, the chapter develops a theoretical approach to do this work, proposing that thinking through ‘environmental aesthetics’ provides a useful supplement to ‘nature’ and ‘religion’, one that is able to demonstrate the existence...

..., and it explores how their work aesthetically and ornamentally territorializes the same kinds of sacred modern aesthetic domains drawn through Part I of the book. The chapter contextualizes the architecture, whilst drawing connections between its environmental resonances and those delineated in Part I. It suggests...

... one has the luxury to get away from the “real world.” This paper examines how and why an aesthetically complex and intellectually challenging artist such as Woolf still matters today for her artistry, opening up a more fundamental conversation about why and how the life of the mind...

... was exploiting the maternal body and subjecting the female body in general to increased surveillance. Reading dance as signifying not only in reference to aesthetic freedom but also as instantiating a revolutionary praxis, the chapter contends that the dancing female bodies within the pages of Woolf...

...This chapter explores the musical artwork and its materials in the music and aesthetics of Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), a composer, transcriber, pianist and essayist. Busoni adopted a highly individual stance concerning musical work and its arrangements, relating both the original and its...

... literature in relation to a transregional polis, as well as the history of debates about (and aesthetics derived from) cosmopolitanism's connection with migrants, slaves, workers and diasporas. Finally, it considers how the decadent cosmopolitanism of the new millennium pushes voice and aesthetics away from...