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Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chaucer pictures the cosmos: materiality, science, and astral poetics

open access: yes
Geoffrey Chaucer’s works glow with dozens of poetic cosmic passages. He mentions the stars, planets, spheres of the cosmos, and the zodiac signs throughout his works, sometimes in unexpected places. Studies in the last hundred years have often applied today’s fuller, post-Ptolemaic knowledge of the solar system to expose alleged ‘hidden schemes ...
openaire   +2 more sources

F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
wiley   +1 more source

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