Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 309 Search Results for
aesthetic
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 201–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... from the world, a hellish reversal of bodily Assumption that would make her ritually unmournable, because invisible, or lost. I term this pattern McKay’s aesthetic of sovereign rejection : either an act of violence or a rapid exit (sometimes both). There is a sketchlike quality to the novel...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 209–218.
Published: 01 March 2008
... m odernity is defined by our a b ility to make such claim s is already enough to suggest a need to pause for thought when faced w ith Bohrer's attem pt to im port, in the guise of the m om ent, the Augenblick, such a claim w ith in the realm o f a m odern aesthetics. W hat is at stake fo r Bohrer...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 March 2014
... argues that in Moby-Dick and the late fictions that follow , M elville maps an aes thetic that values circum am bulation over the violence o f enclosure foregrounded in purpose ful narration.This mode o f narrative navigation, M elville's navigational aesthetic, refuses plot and destination...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Sappho in which she permitted fragments to remain fragmented. The eloquence of those terse bits of poetry moved me deeply. Later, reading Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era I was struck by Kenner's designation of a Poundian "aesthetic o f glimpses."4 Kenner points out how radical it was at the turn...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 83–96.
Published: 01 March 2015
... such gay a nd b ise xu a l a rtis ts as L a n g sto n Hughes, M a rc B litzste in , and O w e n D o dson w e re m arke d by a g a y c a m p s e n s ib ility , and in h o w th is se n sib ility shaped the doubleness o f Popular Front aesthetics, sig n ifica n tly influencing the w o rk o f a rtists w ho...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 115–128.
Published: 01 September 2008
... a set of popular generic conventions that defy modern or postmodern rubrics for evaluating aesthetic expression. Critics who advocate the study of comics continue to strug gle w ith how their achievements especially the achievements o f artists working in popu lar genres can be reconciled w ith...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2016) 54 (2): 41–48.
Published: 01 September 2016
... collaboration w ith Morgan Adamson, Bruce Braun, M athew Coleman, Mary Thomas, Max W oodw orth, and Kathryn Yusoff. 4 For more on aesthetics and the anthropocene, see Allison Carruth and Robert P. Marzec, "Environmental Visualization in the Anthropocene: Technologies, Aesthetics, Ethics," Public Culture 26 :2...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 53–60.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... W ild life1 to recent objections about the Keystone Pipeline's effects on "cultural soundscapes," aesthetics has played an im portant role in the historical development of environm ental e th ics.2 A t the heart of this relationship is the belief th a t in our encounter w ith aesthetically rich...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 41–51.
Published: 01 March 2017
... reconfiguring the debate surrounding the consumption of animals from a prim arily ethical traje cto ry to one grounded in the aesthetic. This proposed (re)turn to the aesthetic dimension could initially face objections from some environmental humanities scholars, who have critiqued the aestheticization...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 73–82.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of concepts like Empire or Subjectivity. Against this trajectory of modernist critique and aesthetic dissection stand many artists who rarely had access to public and culturally valued form s of expression, and for whom the playground of radical technique seemed less inviting, having just fought their way...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 102–115.
Published: 01 December 2005
...-as a Residence, ibid. iv. 381, a late passage for The Recluse. See also The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Later Years, Parti, 2nd. edn. ed. Alan G. Hill (Oxford: Clarendon, 1978) 412. 13 Prospectus 1.55 (Wordsworth s Poetical Works, v. 4.) A SPIRIT IN THE WOODS : HEGELIAN AESTHETICS...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 113–127.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the term , but as the execution o f the deliberate aesthetic design an auteurial version of "h ig h-co n ce pt," if you w ill to recreate the o rig in a l film th ro u g h an act o f m e ticu lo u s im ita tio n , Van Sant's Psycho was, at best, an oddity, a novelty act, and, at w o rst, an utter and c...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 121–143.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Aymê Okasaki Abstract This article discusses the concept of Afro-Brazilian fashion in Candomblé, considering their transatlantic symbolic exchanges in an aesthetics of dress, based on the four vectors proposed by Cunnington—fabric, color, shape, and mobility—through which fashion is expressed...
FIGURES
| View All (10)
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 43–57.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Catherine Engh Abstract This essay places Wollstonecraft’s late novel Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) in conversation with Rousseau’s thought on natural education in Emile (1762). In both texts, aesthetic sensibility is a foundation of religious belief and a crucial feature of a program...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 64–82.
Published: 01 October 2020
... concerning the aesthetics of the art of colonized and indigenous peoples to consider a particular dynamic of European identity formation around the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that the medieval self, pushed away by the teleological model of history, pulled in by nationalism, ruptures and leads...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 April 2021
... cultures serves as a counterpoint to the Depression-fueled Pan-Africanism that increasingly defined W. E. B. Du Bois’s editorials for the Crisis . At the same time, McKay’s persistent interest in the activities of the Liberator suggests a surprising resonance between their aesthetics to his locodescriptive...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 93–108.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Stephanie J. Brown Abstract This article examines the representation of surveillance in Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille and the influence of surveillance on the novel’s aesthetics. It uses McKay’s 1929 novel Banjo as a prior representation of Marseille that establishes the historical...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Mohamad Junaid; Deepti Misri; Ather Zia Abstract This special issue inaugurates a scholarly and creative conversation that seeks to detach the future of Kashmir from the narrative, aesthetic, and political frames of powerful nation-states that have sought to keep Kashmiris confined to a long...
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 122–138.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Susan Zieger Abstract This essay argues that opium’s pivotal role in nineteenth-century political economy and aesthetics constructed addiction as a relationship between labor and capital that has persisted throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Nineteenth-century discourses...
FIGURES
Journal Article
English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 48–64.
Published: 01 April 2024
.... The comparison provides a new critical model for reading postcolonial aesthetic formations that engage nonhuman beings. It furthermore speaks to larger conversations regarding the “ontological turn” of criticism oriented to animist and new materialisms, as it addresses a mode of reading the land in African...
1
