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Aestheticism and Utilitarianism: The Principles of a New Logic in Dostoevsky
This article expresses Dostoevsky’s aesthetic conception through the famous question in his novel, The Idiot, ‘Will beauty save the world?’ The author wants to show how the figure of Christ plays a central role in Dostoevsky’s artistic-literary ...
Adriano Dell’Asta
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Oscar Wilde’s Moral Philosophy: A Synthesis Between Aestheticism and the Picture of Dorian Gray
The exaggeration of Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism that the work of art is purely for beauty and pleasure and has nothing to do with morality makes it very difficult for his moral philosophy to be conceived.
Linus Oluchukwu Akudolu +9 more
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Pograniczne wymiary wielokulturowości: przypadek Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza [PDF]
Kresy was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for a tender artistic sensitivity. Ukrainian topics, "transformed into an infinite number of variants", thus caused some "concerns" in scientific circles.
Lech Suchomłynow
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This article contributes to recovering the history of women’s contributions to aesthetics by examining Emilia Dilke’s writings on aesthetics from the mid-1860s to the early 1870s.
Alison Stone
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“Your Letters are as Cordial as a Friend’s Handshake” (Correspondence between André Gide and Fyodor Rosenberg) [PDF]
St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences stores a correspondence between a famous French writer André Gide and a renowned soviet Orientalist scholar, member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Fyodor Rosenberg (1867–1934 ...
Kirill A. Chekalov
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Language, art, and the (social) body in modern and postmodern aestheticism: A comparison of Wilde and Nabokov [PDF]
In this paper, the author argues for a theoretical difference between the modern and postmodern aestheticism and considers their political implications arguing that modern aestheticism carried progressive or radical political impulse; whereas, under ...
Kovačević Predrag S.
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Approaches to the Problem of Literary Authenticity. A Historical Outline (II) [PDF]
The present article follows the evolution of the approaches to the problem of authenticity, focusing on the various forms of literary authenticity reflected in modernist literary theory texts and manifestos.
Cristina DICUSAR
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The paper focuses on two literary periods located at opposite ends of the twentieth century and examines the relationship between utopian ideas of Victorian fin de siècle and the re-emergence of utopian desires within a metamodernist context.
Anamarija Šporčič
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The Metamorphosis of Mannerism in Russian Poetry at the Turn of the 19th–20th Centuries: Valery Bryusov and Nikolay Gumilev [PDF]
This article is dedicated to the insufficiently studied topic concerning comparative analysis of European mannerism and neo-mannerist tendencies in Russian modernist poetry.
Svetlana D. Titarenko
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Critics generally have viewed D. H. Lawrence’s novel The Lost Girl (1920) as a vexing fictional work that, with its resemblance to the fiction of Arnold Bennett and Compton Mackenzie, seems to eschew the modernist experiment that Lawrence had boldly ...
Richard A. Kaye
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