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Bell, Richard 1972. "Towards a psychoanalytic aesthetics of contemporary literature." Monash University, German Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8912.

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Chiappini, Michael. "Beyond Memorialization: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and AIDS Literature." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554497149697206.

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Reck, Regine. "The aesthetics of combat in medieval Welsh literature." Rahden/Westf Leidorf, 2005. http://d-nb.info/1000311252/04.

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Cochrane, Richard. "Towards an aesthetics of music." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364620.

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Kirwan, James. "Literary theory and literary aesthetics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19020.

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Barker, Jennifer. "The aesthetics of resistance modernism and antifascism /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3178431.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2005.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2208. Adviser: Thomas Foster. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 27, 2006)."

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Efron, Corey. "Televisual Aesthetics in Postmodern Novels 1969-2006." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1618733401371798.

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Mizukoshi, Ayumi. "Keats, Hunt and the aesthetics of pleasure." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363626.

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Schmid, Erica. "Fail Better: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Criticism." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/274890.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>Though literature and literary study have needed defense for most of their respective histories, the current crisis in academic literary study and the humanities more generally has forced scholars into the uncomfortable position of selling their disciplines and simultaneously warning students about the risks involved in earning what the dominant public considers to be "useless" degrees. The paradox, of course, is that dissuading would-be studiers is both ethical and destructive: it is necessary to inform students of the frightful instability of careers in literary study, bu

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Duzs, Elena B. "Fragmentariness as unity : Mixail Kuzmin's aesthetics /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/38088754.html.

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Poulard, Étienne. "Untimely aesthetics : Shakespeare, anachronism and prescence." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53954/.

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For many critics, Hamlet’s famous dictum that ‘The time is out of joint’ is to be read as a social comment on Shakespeare’s own historical moment (Hamlet, 1.5.189). Generally thought to have been written around the same period as Hamlet, Julius Caesar contains a similar statement—‘it is a strange-disposèd time,’ Cicero remarks early on in the play (1.3.33). In 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, James Shapiro suggests that, far from being coincidental, this recurring untimeliness in fact pervades the plays Shakespeare wrote at the turn of the seventeenth century—and most notably H

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LIE, Jianxi. "Samuel Beckett's late aesthetics of subjectivation." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2006. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_etd/6.

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No other writer has explored so metaphysically the problem of human existence as Samuel Beckett, the Irish writer who first gained world renown in 1953 with the formal radicalism and existential angst of Waiting for Godot. In the bleakest forms, Beckett has denied human experience the most fundamental of all certainties – subjectivity and self-consciousness – and exposed conventional realism’s inability to convey the ungovernable flux of the world and the individual’s unfixed, subjective response. Taking Beckett’s manipulation of pronominal, spatial and temporal deixis as an entry point, this

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Bradshaw, Charles C. "Republican aesthetics and the discourse of conspiracy in federalist literature /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3074378.

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Hitt, Christopher J. "The natural sublime : romanticism and the aesthetics of wilderness /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018373.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 277-286). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Winchell, James. "Murdered sleep : crime and aesthetics in France and England, 1850-1910 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6615.

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Jacobs, Jason. "Early British television drama : aesthetics, style and technology." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296562.

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Fernihough, Anne. "D.H. Lawrence and the aesthetics of the body." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305445.

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Mizukoshi, Ayumi. "Keats, Hunt and the aesthetics of pleasure." Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave, 2001. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol051/00048339.html.

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Johnson, P. Louise. "The novels of Llorenc Villalonga : literary aesthetics and ambivalence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361814.

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Tweed, Hannah Catherine. "Aesthetics of autism? : contemporary representations of autism in literature and film." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5996/.

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This thesis analyses representations of autism in twentieth and twenty-first century Anglo-American literature and film. It posits that, while many cultural portrayals of autism are more concerned with perpetuating the stereotypes surrounding the condition than with representing autistic experiences, there is evidence of a small but significant counter-current that is responding to and challenging more reductive representational modes. Each of my chapters examines prevailing narrative tropes that reinforce existing stereotypes of disability (narratives of overcoming, victimhood, dependency), w

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Cheuk, Ka Chi. "Protest literature : aesthetics and race politics in Toni Morrison's historiographic trilogy." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1515.

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Gibson, Ebony Z. "Art for whose Sake?: Defining African American Literature." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/aas_theses/17.

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This exploratory qualitative study describes the criteria that African American Literature professors use in defining what is African American Literature. Maulana Karenga’s black arts framework shaped the debates in the literature review and the interview protocol; furthermore, the presence or absence of the framework’s characteristics were discussed in the data analysis. The population sampled was African American Literature professors in the United States who have no less than five years experience. The primary source of data collection was in-depth interviewing. Data analysis involved open

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Ryan, Teresa Maria. "This ecstatic nation : the American landscape and the aesthetics of patriotism /." abstract (UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3280751.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2007.<br>"August 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-221). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2008]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.

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Chapman, Alison Fiona. "Christina Rossetti and the aesthetics of the feminine." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3059/.

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The act of contextual recovery that motivates New Historicist readings of Christina Rossetti's poetry has its own validity, but the consequence of recovery is often to posit a fully intentional, strong, and subversive subject position. An alternative critique is offered which interprets subjectivities as endlessly oscillating between positions of presence and absence, subject and object, silence and speech, here and elsewhere, and between the text and (impossibly) outside the text. This dynamic allows for a subtle matrix of collusion with, resistance to, and evasion of the representational sys

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Schwartz, Benjamin Lewis. "The Evidences." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1335925112.

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Thomas, Sophie. "Coleridge : the aesthetics of the fragmentary and the romantic imagination." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71327317-3573-4ed1-b13e-557c9d345585.

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Recent work on the fragment, prompted in part by the disruption of totalities in contemporary theories of writing and textuality, has returned the fragment to legitimacy in literary studies. Literary critics have begun to hail the fragment as the quintessential Romantic "form"-- one which, as D.F. Rauber claims, embodies Romantic ideals and aims more fully than any other. The fragment (in unmistakably high Romantic terms) is said to figure forth the infinite and the indeterminate in a finite, discrete, sequential medium--engaging, furthermore, in an organicist relation with the whole of which

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Nawrocka-Colquhoun, Malgorzata. "The idea of musical expression in British aesthetics 1700-1830." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339042.

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Wakely, Maria Eve. "The historical consciousness of Ulysses : James Joyce's gendered, national aesthetics." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/97368.

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Poritsky, John W. "Norris, Zola, and Tolstoy: a study in the aesthetics of naturalism." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407487742.

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Mitra, Samarpita. "The literary public sphere in Bengal: Aesthetics, culture and politics, 1905-1939." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Rempel, Geoff S. "Modernist visual aesthetics and The double hook." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0024/MQ50562.pdf.

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Day, H. J. M. "The aesthetics of the sublime in Latin literature of the Neronian renaissance." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598430.

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This thesis examines the concept of the sublime as represented by three Latin authors of the Neronian period: Lucan, Seneca and Petronius. Through analysis of these texts I explore, first, the relationship between Pseudo-Longinus’ <i>Peri Hupsous</i> and post-Classical theorisations of the sublime; and, second, the complex relationship between the sublime and politico-ethical discourses of freedom and oppression. In doing so, I argue in particular for Lucan’s epic <i>Bellum Civile</i> as a vital and hitherto overlooked text of the sublime and, more broadly, for the Neronian period as an import

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Ruprecht, Lucia. "Writing dancing : intersections of German literature, aesthetics and dance 1760 to 1870." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619894.

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Baglama, Sercan Hamza. "Rethinking Marxist aesthetics : race, class and alienation in post-War British literature." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12322/.

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A literary text subjectively fictionalizes and narrates one dimension of the total structure of an epoch; it reveals the reciprocal interplay between personal experiences and historical formations through the aesthetic incarnation of a unique personal perspective on the real that is also derived from a social position and origin in relation to a social structure. In order to analyse economic, cultural and political histories in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century mediated through the represented experiences of characters in fictions of the post-war period, this dissertation foc

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Jeffrey, Anthony Cole. "The Aesthetics of Sin: Beauty and Depravity in Early Modern English Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062818/.

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This dissertation argues that early modern writers such as William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, George Herbert, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell played a critical role in the transition from the Neoplatonic philosophy of beauty to Enlightenment aesthetics. I demonstrate how the Protestant Reformation, with its special emphasis on the depravity of human nature, prompted writers to critique models of aesthetic judgment and experience that depended on high faith in human goodness and rationality. These writers in turn used their literary works to popularize skepticism about the human mind's abil

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Schwartz, Samuel Robin. "The Artificial Yankee: Invention, Aesthetics, and Violence in American Literature and Technology." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194687.

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This project considers the objective and material manifestations of invention, as well as the subjective processes (creative and mechanical) that invention signifies, in order to examine the historical, aesthetic, and ideological roles that invention plays within American literature. I argue that invention calls attention to a paradox within American culture that literary texts are especially adept at revealing: the newness that invention fetishizes often contains a violent underside, which American literary authors both depict and complicate. In chapter 1 I establish the project's foundat

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McGill, Christopher, and Christopher McGill. "Figuring the Beast: The Aesthetics of Animality in American Literature, 1900-1979." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12394.

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"Figuring the Beast" analyzes the work of Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Robinson Jeffers, and Elizabeth Bishop to reveal literature as a register for a cultural anxiety over human-animal relations that developed throughout the twentieth century. For each of these writers, literary expression was a forum for attempting to solve, or "figure out," complicated ethical questions regarding animals. And, in addressing these questions, each writer also had to answer the question of how best to figure, or characterize, nonhuman others in their work. "Figuring the Beast" thus pursues the close connecti

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Rempel, Geoff S. "Modernist visual aesthetics and The double hook." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21256.

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This thesis examines the significant role of expressionist and minimalist visual aesthetics in the construction (imagery, structuring, language) and subsequent interpretation of Sheila Watson's The Double Hook. While Sherrill Grace's Regression & Apocalypse the groundwork for a literary expressionist reading of Watson's novel, this study elaborates the crucial links between literary and painterly expressionism in the novel and suggests Watson's critique of the expressionist aesthetic. A reading of the minimalist aesthetic, as both an extension of and an alternative to the expressionist reading

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O'Regan, Kevin. "Autonomistic aesthetics of instrumental music, 1800-10 : context, precedence and reception." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361479.

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Malcomess, Bettina. "The aesthetics of radical critique : Kant or the dialectic and revolution." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6748.

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Bibliography: leaves 100-108.<br>This dissertation attempts to account for the paralysis of Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, and thus of radical critique in relation to practice in general. It begins by demonstrating that there is a methodological problem in the connection of the dialectical method to Adorno and Horkheimer's philosophy of history, which posits Enlightenment both as break with the history of reason, and as ahistorical concept of that history. The dissertation takes as its point of departure their discussion of Kant, as exemplary Enlightenment thinker. I will

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Ho, Melanie. "Useful fiction why universities need middlebrow literature /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619436971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Malecka, Joanna. "The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle's 'French Revolution'." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/.

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‘The Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Carlyle’s French Revolution’ examines the work of Thomas Carlyle as a crucial aesthetic intervention in the modern reception of the French Revolution in Europe. It interrogates the prevalent critical constructions of Carlyle’s work and finds them to proceed predominantly from the Whig historical agenda, structured around such key nineteenth-century concepts as utilitarianism and civilisational and moral progress. Within this critical framework, Carlyle’s largely conservative cultural stance and Christian spirituality are hardly allowed any creative poten

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Key, Jennifer Selina. "Death in Anglo-Saxon hagiography : approaches, attitudes, aesthetics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6352.

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This thesis examines attitudes and approaches towards death, as well as aesthetic representations of death, in Anglo-Saxon hagiography. The thesis contributes to the discussion of the historical and intellectual contexts of hagiography and considers how saintly death-scenes are represented to form commentaries on exemplary behaviour. A comprehensive survey of death-scenes in Anglo-Saxon hagiography has been undertaken, charting typical and atypical motifs used in literary manifestations of both martyrdom and non-violent death. The clusters of literary motifs found in these texts and what their

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Smethurst, Coryn Russell Ronald. "Towards a creative aesthetics : with reference to Bergson." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/104996/.

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This thesis explores issues in aesthetics with reference to Bergson. The first chapter outlines and assesses Bergson's interesting and subtle theory of humour, which emphasises the necessary lack of sympathy in humour, and its generalising, external methodology. In doing so it explores the different ways the motif of 'something encrusted on the living' functions on various levels. This is ultimately found to be an interesting account which has many merits. The second chapter then begins to outline the theoretical structure of Bergson's account of humour in terms of vertical and horizontal move

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Sittig, Jennifer M. "Zora Neale Hurston and the Narrative Aesthetics of Dance Performance." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2303.

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Zora Neale Hurston’s literature involves dance and performance. What makes this a viable topic of inquiry is her texts often exhibit the performative, whether portraying culture or using dance and associated folk rituals to create complex meaning. Hurston’s use of black vernacular and storytelling evokes lyrical expression in "Their Eyes Were Watching God." African and Caribbean Diasporas in Hurston’s literature reflects primitive dance performances and folklore. This novel requires lyrical analysis. The storytelling feature of performance arts and reclamations of the body are present in Hurst

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Weinberger, Gabriele W. "Aesthetics and politics of fascism : West German women filmmakers in the nineteen seventies /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487590702991884.

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Wood, Rupert Arthur. "Aesthetics and ascesis : Schopenhauerian structures in the later prose of Samuel Beckett." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358846.

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Ware, Guy Mathew. "A vision of the Last Judgement : Marxist aesthetics and Blake's minor prophecies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316872.

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Micconi, Giovanna. "Circus Aesthetics, Travel, History, and Mourning in the Poetry of Robert Hayden." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26718732.

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Circus Aesthetics examines the work of the African American poet Robert Hayden and engages with the problem of identifying different frameworks with which to think about Hayden’s poetry and African American literature more broadly. In 1978, two years before his death, Hayden, the first African American poet to be nominated Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress, was still struggling and fighting with the idea of being considered a “black poet” and with the socio-political implications and expectations that accompanied that label. During his address to the Library of Congress on May 8, 19

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Gershkovich, Tatyana. "Held Captive: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Aesthetics of Constraint." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493286.

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This dissertation examines a counterintuitive artistic imperative that emerged from the struggles of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Nabokov with an aesthetic problem of Kantian provenance. These two authors are widely considered to be opposed in their vision of art, but I show that their aesthetics in fact converge upon the same goal: to grant the reader a particular kind of freedom. These authors shared the Kantian view that aesthetic enjoyment requires that the reader not be constrained by any interest or concept. This feeling of freedom, they believed, is threatened not only when a reader looks t

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