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Birmingham’s Women Poets: Aestheticism and the Daughters of Industry

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2011
British female aestheticism is seen to have a key geographical locus in London, and critics have convincingly argued over recent years for the importance of that city and its rich cultural life to the work of late-nineteenth-century women’s poetry.
Marion Thain
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Features of Aestheticism in Literary Heritage of Mikhail Kuzmin [PDF]

Journal of Danubian Studies and Research, 2015
The article deals with the main principles of aestheticism reflected in the literary works of Mikhail Kuzmin, the author of well-known lines: “Широки и спокойны струи, Как судоходный Дунай!” The sources of M. Kuzmin’s aestheticism, such as ideas of Pre-
Elena Kolmykova
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From Aestheticism to Modernism, and Back Again

19, 2006
This paper argues that the conventional art-historical periodization, in which Modernism inexorably supersedes Aestheticism, and the year 1900 marks a radical break in the history of art, is seriously flawed: not only historiographically naïve, it is ...
Elizabeth Prettejohn
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The new aestheticism [PDF]

, 2003
The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions concerning aesthetics were often carried out in a critical shorthand that failed to engage with the particularity of the work of art, much less the specificities of aesthetic experience.
Joughin, John J., Malpas, Simon
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The End of Aestheticism?

Ruch Filozoficzny
The article analyses the relation between beauty and value and leads Elzenberg to the conclusion that beauty is not itself a value but only an uncertain sign of the presence of value-creating features. Ultimately, however, he does not abandon aestheticism, since aesthetic experience remains the principal mode of communing with value, although its basis
Henryk Elzenberg
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Between Aestheticism and Utilitarianism. The Principles of a New Logic in Dostoevsky [PDF]

Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2019
The article expresses Dostoevsky’s aesthetic conception through theAbstract: The article expresses Dostoevsky’s aesthetic conception through thefamous question in his novel, The Idiot, ‘Will beauty save the world?’ The author wantsto show how the figure ...
Adriano Dell’Asta
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The sixth sense : synaesthesia and British aestheticism, 1860-1900 [PDF]

, 2010
“The Sixth Sense: Synaesthesia and British Aestheticism 1860-1900” is an interdisciplinary examination of the emergence of synaesthesia conceptually and rhetorically within the ‘art for art’s sake’ movement in mid-to-late Victorian Britain.
Poueymirou, Margaux Lynn Rosa
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Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2011
In scrutinising Aestheticism, feminist scholarship has found the usual characteristics: a band of male actors, achievers and heroes, an extensive use of female imagery, and an investment in the idea or fantasy of Woman in the absence (designed or ...
Pamela Gerrish Nunn
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Aestheticism and Decoration: At Home with Michael Field

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2011
Talia Schaffer’s work on the poet Rosamund Marriott Watson and her theories of home decoration has been key to understand how female aesthetes reconfigured and re-appropriated this aspect of aestheticism.
Ana Parejo Vadillo
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Aestheticism in The Theory of Custom [PDF]

Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, 2000
The nature of learning processes as well as evolutionary considerations suggest that aesthetic judgement is of central importance in the formation of custom. Learning and extrapolation rely on evaluations of non-instrumental features like simplicity, analogy, straightforwardness, and clarity.
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