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Aestheticism [PDF]

open access: yesVictorian Literature and Culture, 2018
Aestheticism refers to a late-Victorian tendency to argue that art is its own justification and should therefore be judged by purely aesthetic criteria. Closely related to the doctrine of l’art pour l’art (art for art’s sake) put forward by Théophile Gautier and to the radical aesthetic theories of Charles Baudelaire, British aestheticism found its ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Les usages « sauvages » de l’image. Retours sur une expérience profane de la sociologie visuelle

open access: yesImages du Travail, Travail des Images, 2017
Some sociologists – of which I am part – do not use (or use very few) images in their research, and such a (non) choice is often overlooked. Yet, images may provide valuable lessons in terms of methods and analysis if one considers them as empirical ...
Flora Bajard
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Oscar Wilde and la critique impressionniste

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2013
It is well known that Wilde’s aestheticism was based not only on the ideas of Arnold, Pater, Ruskin and Swinburne but also on his reading of French writers including Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gautier and Mallarmé.
Richard Hibbitt
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“Like journeying through a painting”: Travel Writing and the Exploration of Textual Boundaries in Rachel Cusk’s The Last Supper

open access: yesE-REA, 2013
Presenting itself as the account of a journey undertaken with her family, Rachel Cusk’s The Last Supper, A Summer in Italy echoes other works of travel writing as it questions the verbal translation of the lived experience.
Isabelle RANNOU
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Michael Field’s “A Dance of Death”

open access: yesNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2012
The 1912 poem "A Dance of Death" by Michael Field (pen name of Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper) depicts Salome in an alternate version of the biblical story: this Salome dances on a frozen river, falls through the ice, and is decapitated on ...
LeeAnne Richardson
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“Beauty is confined to no people”: The charitable aestheticism of Mary Eliza Haweis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In her work British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, Diana Maltz investigates the concept of ‘missionary aestheticism.’ By looking closely at Mary Eliza Haweis’s self-illustrated, and often neglected work Rus in Urbe (1886) it will become ...
Allen, L.
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Transparent Perovskite Light‐Emitting Diodes with Conductive Oxide Top Electrodes

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Transparent perovskite light‐emitting diodes (TrPeLEDs) enable simultaneous display and transparency, expanding application possibilities. Using a metal oxide buffer layer and pulsed laser deposition, TrPeLEDs with diverse compositions and architectures are demonstrated.
Michele Forzatti   +11 more
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Thomas Mann: Ästhetizismus und die Denkstruktur des Einerseits-Andererseits – mit Bezug auf «Wälsungenblut»

open access: yesStudia theodisca, 2012
Thomas Mann is an author without a fixed point of view. When he discusses a problem he tends to opt for an «on the one hand – on the other hand». His novella Wälsungenblut is the epitome of aestheticism. How is this aestheticism portrayed?
Wolfgang Nehring
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A study of unusual aesthetic symbols in Persian Literature [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2008
Which criteria and symbols in traditional aestheticism have led our ances- tors to call someone beautiful or otherwise? Have these criteria changed over the years?
saeid hamidian
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Mire’s Interpretation of the Tragic and Paradoxical World of Oscar Wilde

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius), 2021
This article analyzes the reception of the figure of O. Wilde, the 19th-century English writer, and his works in the prose and criticism of Alexandra Mikhailovna Moiseeva (1874-1913), who entered the history of Russian literature of the Silver Age by the
Maria Mikhailova, Sofya Kudritskaya
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