Fashioning sensibility: emotions in Gianna Manzini’s fashion journalism [PDF]
, 2019 The study is the first interdisciplinary investigation into fashion journalism under the fascist regime and in the post-war period (1922-1960), a crucial time for Italy and the worldwide consolidation of its fashion industry.
Santoro, Vanessa
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Not Just Pretty Clothes: Fashion\u27s Progressive Operationalization as Seen in Baudelaire and Benjamin; Addendum: Anna Karenina\u27s Appropriation of her Mortality Through Dress [PDF]
, 2020 Throughout this double thesis, the author investigates the philosophical significance of fashion. Through her pursuit, she works through the reformulations of the experience of the beautiful as constructed by French poet Charles Baudelaire, then expands ...
Trainor, Serena Laine
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Proposing Fashion: The Discourse of Glossy Magazines [PDF]
, 2013 This essay discusses the production and discourse of fashion magazines, or glossies, which are an integral part of the ‘fashion system’. As intermediaries between producers and consuming public, the glossies’ main purpose is to propose: to make proposals
Moeran, Brian
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Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, 1758–1848 (Volume 8) [PDF]
, 2022 In this original study, Siobhán McIlvanney examines the beginnings of the women’s press in France. Figurations of the Feminine is the first work in English to assess the most significant publications which make up this diverse, yet critically neglected ...
McIlvanney, Siobhán
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The Curse as a Garment in Greek Tragedy [PDF]
, 2016 This article considers how Greek tragedy adapts the metaphor of the curse as a garment used in Ancient Near Eastern rituals and treaties. Using this comparative material, I analyze the fatal garments used by female characters in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon ...
Fletcher, Judith
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Spatial Metaphors of Time in Roman Culture [PDF]
, 2018 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Johns Hopkins University Press via the DOI in this recordAs cognitive structures that capture patterns of sensorimotor experience, image schemas and their metaphorical ...
Short, WM
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Despindo Moll Flanders: Performances de Identidade e Vestuário no longo século XVIII [PDF]
In her radical reassessment of Enlightenment rationalism, Terry Castle points out how eighteenth-century culture can be defined as a culture of travesty.
Perazzini, Federica
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Undressing the Power of Fashion: the Semiotic Evolution of Gender Identity By Coco Chanel and Alexander Mcqueen [PDF]
, 2015 The use of clothing reinforces gender roles culturally assigned to men and women by emphasizing individuals\u27 biological sex and encouraging them to behave in specific ways based on their sex.
Marcangeli, Sveva
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Enide’s tattered dress and Erec’s fabulous coronation robe; Yvain’s nudity in the forest, which prevents maidens who know him well clothed from identifying him; Lanval’s fairy-lady parading about in the Arthurian court, scantily dressed, for all to ...
Wright, Monica L.
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Seeing through a glass darkly : Piers Plowman and the corruption of sign systems [PDF]
, 1989 The last half of the fourteenth century in England is perhaps one of the greatest periods of social, economic, and religious change in English history. Piers Plowman, written in three versions from ca. 1362 to ca.
Pigg, Daniel Farris
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