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Phenomenology & Practice, 2011 Ugliness is largely considered an aesthetic, cultural construct and, though infrequently defined, is often seen as the opposite of existing conceptions of beauty. This definition of ugliness, however, provides little understanding of the lived experience
Erika Goble
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The Category of Ugliness in "Historie maniaków" by Roman Jaworski
Czytanie Literatury, 2020 The article undertakes to interpret the collection of short stories titled Historie maniaków by Roman Jaworski using the category of ugliness. So far, this work has been analysed through a different aesthetic category, namely the grotesque, while the ...
Magdalena Sikorska
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Aesthetic value: beauty, ugliness and incoherence [PDF]
, 1997 [FIRST PARAGRAPHS] From Plato through Aquinas to Kant and beyond beauty has traditionally been considered the paradigmatic aesthetic quality. Thus, quite naturally following Socrates' strategy in The Meno, we are tempted to generalize from our ...
Kieran, M.
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Diabeł straszniejszy niż go malują. Lęk przed diabłem w XIII-wiecznym zbiorze Vie des peres
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2022 The article analyses the vision of the devil in the selected tales of the Vie des peres, a collection of pious tales from the thirteenth century, freely inspired by patristic literature and medieval exempla. The period in which the collection was written,
Joanna Gorecka-Kalita
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‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies [PDF]
, 2014 Stars are often associated with glamour and beauty, but in this paper I would like to question how the concept of “chou” (literally meaning ugliness) is embraced in contemporary Chinese cinema. The popularity of chouxing (ugly star) in the Chinese cinema
Feng, Lin
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Neuroaesthetics has been searching for the neural bases of the subjective experience of beauty. It has been demonstrated that neural activities in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the left primary motor cortex (lPMC) correlate with the subjective ...
Koyo eNakamura, Hideaki eKawabata
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Do possible worlds compromise God’s beauty? A reply to Mark Ian Thomas Robson [PDF]
, 2012 In a recent article Mark Ian Thomas Robson argues that there is a clear contradiction between the view that possible worlds are a part of God's nature and the theologically pivotal, but philosophically neglected, claim that God is perfectly beautiful. In
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0226 An Icon of Ugliness – Eutropius the Eunuch
RIHA Journal, 2019 Theoretically, ugliness as aesthetic concept—more than the absence of beauty—first came to the fore in the 19th century. This contribution uses the late Latin poet Claudian (370–404 CE) to show that his invective epic against the consul and eunuch ...
Susanna Elm
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The Ugly Side of Colchicine [PDF]
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2021 We report a rare case of a 32-year-old male who ingested 32.4 to 54 mg of colchicine and presented after 44 hours. He developed progressive multiple organ failure with shock, acute kidney failure, troponemia, pancytopenia, absolute neutropenia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, acute liver failure, rhabdomyolysis, and lactic acidosis.
Justin Cozza +3 more
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On the Beautiful and the Ugly [PDF]
Trans/Form/Ação, 2011 Classical aesthetics sees the experience of the beautiful as an anthropological necessity. But, in fact, the beautiful is rather the central category designating classical art, and one can question the relevance of this category considering contemporary art.
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