Walter Pater’s Anders-Streben: as Theory and as Practice by Margaux Poueymirou

“…In this article, I examine Pater’s theory of ‘Anders-streben’ in relation to the concept of synaesthesia and as a context for understanding the role, function and rhetorical style of ‘aesthetic criticism.’ For this was Pater’s art and thus, certainly not exempt from the paradigm he formulated in ‘Giorgione.’…”
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Vernacular Architecture as Self-Determination: Venturi, Scott Brown and the Controversy over Philadelphia's Crosstown Expressway, 1967-1973 by Sebastian Haumann

“…In this project, Venturi and Scott Brown spoke on behalf of a citizens’ initiative opposing a proposed inner-city expressway in the South Street area of Philadelphia. The aesthetic criticism exemplified in their study of Las Vegas found parallels in the political critique embodied by the alternative scheme they developed for the Philadelphia citizen group. …”
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The Contemporary Critical Reception of Walter Pater: Retrospective and Proleptical Views by Geoffrey Sadock

“…By showing the shift from hostile modernism to a more open and inclusive conception of his literary persona, I explain why Pater is no longer dismissed as precieux and inconsequential by the guardians of High Culture (such as Eliot) but is recognized as an original who synthesized personal preoccupations and aesthetic/critical response to various art forms, nature, and persons. …”
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