... constantly disavowed, I suggest that the recent movement called the “New Aestheticism” can contribute much to understanding the relationship between ethics and literature. The article discusses Heidegger's concept of aletheia —and correlations in Wittgenstein—and its relation to art. I then suggest...

... can be seen to emerge in a fusion of sociology and aestheticism at the fin de siècle, a fusion which George, who in his eighth book of poetry takes on the role of a lawgiving authority, tries to transmute in order to regain an ethical and a governmental function for literature. A critical reading...

... systems shares a conceptual shape with the autotelic nature of l art pour l art. But the resonance, whichHenderson definitively establishes, raises a host of ques- tions she does not pursue, most notably about the fact that the abstraction of aestheticism was itself motivated by a host of worldly...

... historical vitality in distinct elements revealed by morphological analysis, takes its inspiration from Alexander Veselovsky's theory of motif and Mikhail Bakhtin's concepts of architectonics and the chronotope. © 2017 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2017 aestheticism philology...

... to the socioeconomic center.Thus while advertising may appear on the surface to work like true literature toward ‘‘freedomto defamiliarize or, in the lan- guage of advertising, ‘‘aestheticize’’ the object or service whose consump- tion is promoted—the texts and images operate not in the name of bliss...

...- ography (2000). Mark M. Anderson is professor of German at Columbia University. The author of Kafka’s Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siècle (1992), he has writ- ten widely on modern German literature. He currently is at work on a biographical essay on W. G. Sebald...

...” endorses the evolving “visual turn” in philosophy. Gal is the author of the monographs Introduction to Design Theory: Philosophy, Critique, History, and Practice (2023); Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics: A Formalist Theory of Metaphor (2022); Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist...

... investment in their narratives. Next come two essays on Poe, a founding figure in the history of the short story as both a practitioner and a theorist. Peter Gibian traces Poe’s legacy as a foundational model in the development of European as well as American 204 Poetics Today 35:1-2 aestheticism...

...), and in general manifests the aestheticizing of political dis- course through the revolutionary power of language. The subversive mani- 298 Poetics Today 30:2 festo not only supports political praxis, it is conceived as a revolutionary rhetorical act (ibid The historical avant-garde likewise initiates...

... and perception give us new ways to explore how attention and perception “are aestheticized and enacted in game worlds” (93). The Sony Playstation game Journey is the target case. Ciccoricco chooses this particular game because it involves a cooperative, rather than competitive-combative enactment of story...

... to Derrida and Adorno (Cambridge, UK: Polity). 2003 “Melancholy as Form: Towards an Archaeology of Modernism,” in The New Aestheticism , edited by John J. Joughin and Simon Malpas, 167 -89 (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press). Bowie, Andrew 1997 From Romanticism to Critical Theory...

... skin again (122). This scene exemplifies the supreme aestheticization of gay sex that occurs across Hollinghurst s novels, with its marriage of low material (dead leaves, outdoor sex frankly rendered) and high art (the Wagnerian chord). But this act of involuntary imagining the love-chord sounding...

... way, 3 as I will explain. In opposition to the aestheticized and staged death of the characters of Madame Verona and Monsieur Potter, the novella frequently comments on nature's capacity for self-repair and survival after human intervention. Indeed, against the finitude of human life in Oucwègne...

... ‘‘Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity’’ The first use refers to poetic rhythm and it is Bakhtin’s prototypical example of aes- 9 thetic form. Whenever an example of aesthetic form is given, it is usually 10 rhythmic form. Rhythm, Bakhtin writes again and again, aestheticizes...

... in mind are two: the initial break produced by aestheticism’s insistence on the autonomy of ‘‘high art and the second, equally scandalous rup- ture produced by the avant-garde’s attempt to reintegrate art into every- day life...

..., then, is a transaction in which what is read is ‘‘made over in the mind’s active imagining, not made up; and registered on the page so that the reader can extend the interpretation and take part in the cogni- tive dance’’ (170). Despite the resonances of aestheticism in this description of Sorrentino’s project...

... ( Los Angeles : Sage ). Lawton Anna , ed. 1988 Russian Futurism through Its Manifestoes, 1912 – 1928 ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press ). Leighton Angela 2007 On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ). Levine...

... of a grand answer. Thus estrange- ment lays bare the boundaries between art and life but never pretends to abolish or blur them. It does not allow for either a seamless translation of life into art or the wholesale aestheticization of politics. Art is meaningful only when it is not entirely...

....) thus considers Marinetti’s act as “creating a new genre, a genre that might meet the needs of mass audience. . . . The Futurist manifesto was a way of aestheticizing what had traditionally been a vehicle for political statement.” Similarly, manifestos related to the historical avant-garde (i.e...

... and mutual influences among them. The first chapter (“Origins of Modernism”) outlines the turn-of-the-century lit- erary context in which Eliot, Hulme, and Pound first began to write and shape their ideas about “modernity,” emphasizing their indebtedness to nineteenth-century aestheticism...