Das Menschliche in der Musik . August Halms prozessuale Metaphorik im Brennpunkt analysetheoretischer Fragestellungen by Astrid Bolay

“…To justify his formal-aesthetic position, however, he is forced in his analysis of the Tempest Sonata – in contrast to a content-focused aesthetic interpretation of the same piece by Paul Bekker – to define the boundary between a “permissible” and a “no longer permissible,” overly “humanising” metaphor. …”
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Les mémoires d’une automobile (pas) comme les autres. La Coccinelle VW et ses mises en histoire by Pierre LANNOY

“…The article then details four memorial channels by which the Beetle is given a history : a hagiographic channel, in which it becomes an object of passion, being unique in the automotive history ; an academic channel, in which it is seized as an object of research calling for epistemologically founded interpretations ; a political channel, in which the Beetle calls for moral judgments on the part of culturally situated individuals ; an iconic channel, transforming it in a semiotic object feeding aesthetic interpretations. The never-ending social practices which make these channels active give to the VW Beetle its mythic stuff and its peculiar place in the cultural landscape of Western societies.…”
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