...” and “Beauty”) in light of Walter Benjamin’s insight that the significance of Baudelaire’s poetry is linked to the way sexuality becomes severed from normal and normative forms of love. Following Benjamin, the essay argues that Baudelaire appeals to beauty to undo the damage done by the so-called natural order...

.... “Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin's Artwork Essay Reconsidered.” October 62 (Fall 1992 ): 3 -41. Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful . Ed. Adam Phillips. New York: Oxford up, 1990 . de Bolla, Peter. The Education of the Eye...

... and civilizations. The essay relates Freud’s thoughts on transience and beauty to the end of analysis and concludes with a reading of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s “Les Roses de Saadi” to contend that the transmission of the Pass occurs on the level of sensation to attain, beyond cultural particularities, desire...

...Abigail Zitin Critics have identified William Hogarth’s correlation of beauty with desire as the most original idea that his 1753 treatise contributes to aesthetic discourse in the eighteenth century, an idea emblematized in the formulation that visual intricacy “leads the eye a wanton kind...

... cinematic and theatrical? The tension between the somatic side of singing and the beautification of the singing, instrumental, working body through dancing brings a gendered vision to the fore that links the female body strictly with codes of beauty. A reading of Madonna’s video “Take a Bow” allows...

...Chengzhou He As an important representative of cross-dressing performance in Chinese popular culture, Li Yugang (李玉刚) is highly acclaimed both in and outside China for his impersonation of well-known beauties in Chinese history and literature. By interweaving Peking Opera with elements of popular...

.... Belle et la Bête . Dir. Jean Cocteau. Perf. Jean Maray and Josette Day. Lopert Pictures Corporation, 1946 . Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales . New York: Vintage, 1977 . Bottigheimer, Ruth B. “Cupid and Psyche vs. Beauty and the Beast...

... Voice in Heroides 15:Or, Why is Sappho a Man?” Roman Sexualities . Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner, eds. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997 . 274 –91. Habrich, Elmar, ed. Iamblichi Babyloniacorum reliquiae . Leipzig: Teubner, 1960 . Hawley, Richard. “ The Dynamics of Beauty in Classical...

.... They gave Bessie and me these beautiful china dolls that probably were very expensive. Those dolls were white, of course. You couldn't get a colored doll like that in those days. Well, I loved mine, just the way it was, but do you know what Bessie did? She took an artist's palette they had also given us...

... instantly recognize. Further, Catty’s sexual relations disqualify her as a Victorian heroine. Unlike Eva’s death, Catty’s is neither beautiful nor purposeful. Although Catty’s death may reinforce her status as the title’s ironic “silent” partner...

... primary literary ambition. His fiction is distinctive for the constant parodying of earlier themes and narrative conventions, such as the scholar-beauty romance and the idea that being handsome brings wealth. He also wrote...

..., "If you repent, I will give you my sister who is more beautiful than I am. " [Resh Lakish] agreed. [Resh Lakish] wanted to cross back to take his clothes but he couldn't. [Rabbi Yol:tanan] taught [Resh Lakish] Mishna and Talmud and made him into a great man. Once they were disputing in the Study House...

... uncertainty consists in his involvement with a most lovely woman, a sensuous beauty that both surpasses anything her lover has known until then, and that leaves him in doubt as to whether she 56 The Imaginary...

.... It is unassimilable, overwhelming, and transformative. ■ After the event, après-coup —despite or precisely because of its beauty—this group was shattered rather than exultant; each person’s relationship to Petit came to an abrupt end, although none of them can find the words to say why. Rather than...

... their black identity, their power, and their beauty by moving outside the black community and dating men from across the racial spectrum. But there is no irony for these advocates, who portray black women who are open to interracial dating as successfully laying down the burden of America’s racial history...

... by Tom, and each of whom is thereby depleted in explicitly gendered ways. Myrtle’s femininity is coarsely “v ital” and “smou ldering,” yet lacking in what the novel figures as the ethereality of feminine beauty and the refined...

... (Dawn), enamored of the beautiful Tithonos, snatched him ofT to her home at the end of the earth. She asked Zeus for immortal life for him, but forgot to ask for immortal youth. Once he had grown old, Eos shut him up in her palace and left him to his fate. 2 In a papyrus fragment which preserves...

...” that he calls “the passion for pure beauty” (137), which he says is missing in Freud’s account of art. And in his Aesthetic Theory , Theodor W. Adorno argues that psychoanalysis “unlocks phenomena, but falls short of the phenomenon of art” (9) because “for Freud, artworks are indeed, even though...

... Purebreds and Amazons circus acts. Disagreement over Zingaro is only the latest in a long history of debates about the function and status of horses, whether as animals we can train or as beings whose grace and beauty inspire an uncommon...