Mythologies of American violence in Alan Ball's True Blood series by Anne-Marie PAQUET-DEYRIS

“…All of them provide starkly original variations on the central notions of trouble and evil.The show addresses some the following key issues: which aesthetic, formal and ideological strategies are adopted to represent the different layers of reality? …”
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Les meubles médiévaux aux xviiie et xixe siècles : entre dédain et vision romantique by Cécile Lagane

“…Pieces of furniture have thus been judged boorish, without delicacy or interest. 18th c. joiners have especially singled out the lack of aesthetic qualities of medieval furniture, as opposed to more recent elements, thought «beautiful». …”
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MUSICAL EDUCATION VERSUS MAN OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY by Stela GUŢANU

“…Music plays an important part in contemporary education, as part of the human culture, as a powerful means of emotional expression and interpersonal communication, as an expression of national, religious and cultural identity, as well as a means of contact, communication and exchange between different cultures, nations and religions, as a means of recreation, entertainment and aesthetic enjoyment. …”
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Enjeux artistiques et stratégies patrimoniales dans le flamenco au temps des années 1960-2000 by Corinne Frayssinet Savy

“…They are part of a wider historical and contextual framework that puts into perspective the question of collecting as applied to flamenco and its various modes of dissemination, and the ethical and aesthetic issues that arise from it. A study of the context of their appearance and development reveals a different approach to the gypsy collection and a different artistic use during a period of transition between the revaluation and institutionalisation of its heritage. …”
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Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

“…With regard to Aestheticism as a literary trend, scholars working under the influence of feminism, from Elaine Showalter on, have restored female agency to the territory, re-instating the achievements of various women writers in shaping Aestheticism in its own time, while provoking a reassessment of its meanings and messages through this problematising of the authority of its traditional movers and shakers (Schaffer and Psomiades, Women and British Aestheticism, 1999; Schaffer, The Forgotten Female Aesthetes, 2000). The same has not occurred for the visual art of Aestheticism.To address the work of gender within Aestheticism, this paper proposes some specific works by women artists as characteristic of the style. …”
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Incest, Lit(t)erally: How Joyce Censored The Wake by Stéphane Jousni

“…All his life long as a writer, Joyce had to battle against censorship — be it political, moral or aesthetic — and censors, be they Irish, British, American, or even French. …”
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Reflexões críticas em torno de Rubén Darío: relendo as interpretações de José Enrique Rodó e de Manuel Gondra by Elisângela da Silva Santos

“…In this sense, we observe that the Latin Americanist rhetoric was in search of an aesthetic model that could elect, protect and forge the materials of our identity.…”
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Polychrome sculptures in Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale by Olivia COULOMB

“…So, these two plays may be regarded as part of a diptych as far as the dramatic and aesthetic function of the statue-like female character is concerned. …”
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Les enjeux de la traduction dans la réception de Haendel en Grande-Bretagne entre 1945 et 1970 by Pierre Degott

“…The aim of this paper is to demonstrate to what extent the aesthetic choices of the various translators – Kitching, Dent, and a few others – were meant to acclimatize on British soil a type of repertoire completely alien to the targeted audience even though the works in question had all been composed for a London audience. …”
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The construction of Chineseness in the Chinatowns of the Hague and Amsterdam. by Yuyao Mei, Ilse van Liempt

“…The existence of a Chinatown has helped metropolises to label themselves as global and diverse cities but Chinatowns do not always meet the gazers’ expectations on its cultural and aesthetic features. Moreover, they rework the concept of Chineseness to achieve the goal of city officials’ ideas of an ‘ideal’ Chinatown. …”
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Transcultural transformation in cinema by Yu. V. Vorontsova

“…This creates a special definition of the musical and artistic genres, combining traces of a documentary style influencing the authenticity of the representations depicted, with a strong aesthetic impulse emphasising the organisational and artistic nature of these representations. …”
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Repression and Expression of S exuality in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles: the Paradox and Virtue of Censorship by Thierry Goater

“…On the other hand, the strategies devised by authors to circumvent censorship were often aesthetically fruitful. One could even wonder whether, paradoxically, Victorian censorship did not favour the expression of the ‘forbidden’ rather than its repression, whether it did not reveal more than it tried to conceal. …”
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Conceptual Metaphor of “Happiness” in Divan Shams by Abbas Mohammadian, Majid Farhanizadeh

“…The theoretical basis of research is the conceptual metaphors theory that has expanded metaphor from a purely aesthetic instrumental to a worthy approach for understanding and thinking. …”
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Changing Life: Historical Musicology as a Strategic Tool in the Italian Community Music Perspective. A Case Study by Antonella Coppi, Johann van der Sandt

“…New models such as Community Opera, based on storytelling and the collaborative creation of musical experiences, have paved the way for teaching and learning environments that promote historical knowledge and aesthetic appreciation. This joint paper highlights some of the characteristics of community music in Italy: the theoretical underpinnings of the pedagogical model, its content and experiences, and the transmission of historical-musical knowledge beyond the formal teaching and learning context.…”
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Exploring leadership on Instagram: A visual model for online leadership analysis by Michele Martini

“…User activity on large-scale platforms, such as Instagram, can be mapped by tracing the rise and fall of communities of practice that share different visual languages, aesthetic values and forms of leadership. Accordingly, the present study proposes an analytical model for the identification, measurement, and categorization of leadership on visual-based social networks, by asking: how does the digital performance of leaders on Instagram construct different forms of leadership? …”
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An ‘extraordinary change’ in the Climate: The Transformative Power of Impressionism in George Moore’s Art Criticism by Fabienne Gaspari

“…These writings try to transform the impression of disorientation felt in front of the pictures into an essential component of aesthetic experience. This feeling is also central to Impressionist literature and this article aims to study to what extent Moore’s ideas on the epistemological uncertainties characteristic of what he called ‘modern painting’ influenced the field of literature at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.…”
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Cinema as Testimony and Discourse for History: Film Cityscapes in Autobiographical Documentaries by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

“…Film images testify to the real appearance of the past, or at least its aesthetic, through old films or archival footage. However, the meaning of an image is never transparent but part of a cultural discourse to be interpreted. …”
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Bernard Lassus : une pratique démesurable pour le paysage by Massimo Venturi Ferriolo

“…These evolutions lead Bernard Lassus to express his personal conception of landscape project, the aesthetic and the important ethical character of it. …”
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The Mountain Sublime of Philip James de Loutherbourg and Joseph Mallord William Turner by Aurélie Tremblet

“…If there are striking analogies between the two canvases, disclosing the existence of several forms and factors of saliency, common to both artists —and directly echoing the aesthetic notion of the Sublime, which emerged in Great-Britain in the 19th century— these visual manifestations of saliency seem to have equivalents in the linguistic field. …”
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Ce qu’observer veut dire by Cyrille Marlin

“…Making choices can imply : 1. revisiting the notion of the landscape and disassociating it from any overly explicit aesthetic allusions ; 2. repositioning the practice of the observer landscape architect compared with the more traditional practice of the landscape architect and the practices of the social sciences such as geography, anthropology and sociology, with which it shares many of the same tools and raises the same questions without necessarily resorting to the same methods. …”
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