Musikalische Zeitgestaltung in Mendelssohns Liedern ohne Worte by Ullrich Scheideler

“…The interaction of adumbration and a (provisional) deferral of the harmonic and thematic goal is interpreted as a note of longing and thus in terms of a romantic aesthetic.…”
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Genius Logi: Towards the Phenomenology of Gated Community by Özlem Yıldız, Havva Alkan Bala

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Pour une esthétique de la réception en histoire des idées politiques by Clément Rodier

“…The hermeneutic approach of reception aesthetics thus makes it possible to reveal the centrality of interpretation in the theoretical and historical significance of a “work of thought”. …”
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Interrogating Okooro Masquerade: A Structuralists Reading of the Costumes by Segun Omosule

“…This difficulty specifically confronts the interpretation of indigenous masquerades. While deploying structuralism and aesthetics, the endeavor is to attempt an explication of the text through eclecticism. …”
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Tre racconti in Centopagine by Dario Pontuale

“…This article shows the significant role held by Italo Calvino in Flaubertian interpretation and analyzes Flaubert’s influence on Calvino’s works, in particular Le Corbeau vient le dernier, Le Vicomte pourfendu, Le Baron perché. …”
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Innovative paradigms in New Japanese art: a case study of Yokoyama Taikan's selected artworks by Mao Xing, Sarena Abdullah

“…This study offers an interpretive perspective different from traditional art history and aesthetics, focusing on three aspects within the theoretical framework of visual culture studies: the interpretation of visual symbols, the evolution of aesthetic perspectives, and the acceptance of popular art through the case study method. …”
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In the Shadow of the “Indeterminate Speech-Act”: The Populist Politics of Rumor in Fritz Lang’s Early Sound Films by Florian Zappe

“…Based on Gilles Deleuze’s claim that rumor has been a “cinematographically privileged object” in early sound cinema, this essay will provide a political analysis of the representation of rumor in two early sound films in the transnational oeuvre of Fritz Lang. This interpretation of M―Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (Germany, 1931) and Lang’s first Hollywood production Fury (USA, 1936) will show that the shift from silent to sound cinema marks not only an aesthetic and technological innovation, but also coincides with an increased political awareness in the director’s oeuvre. …”
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From Prose to Picture: Critical Reflections on the Road and the Journey in John Steinbeck’s and John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath by Beatrice Melodia Festa

“…However, the film adaptation has been more frequently analyzed for its thematic content than appreciated for its visual aesthetics, likely due to its connection with Ford’s established cinematic legacy and its alignment with the broader corpus of works addressing the socio-economic struggles of Depression-era America. …”
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Grodek (1914) – le testament poétique de Georg Trakl by Natalia Teuber-Terrones

“…Above all, in front of this kind of complex and revolutionary poetry, we must ask the question about how to get an objective and scientific interpretation. How can we interpret a poem uniquely built on a muddle of images and figures with a heavy symbolic charge or, as some specialists say, codes? …”
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From Animal Odd Couples to Oddkin: Probing Visual Representations of Interspecies Friendship through Critical Cuteness by Justyna Włodarczyk

“…Through a reading of three different versions of one narrative, James Oliver Curwood’s Nomads of the North and the novel’s two film adaptations, the article traces a genealogy of cuteness in representations of interspecies friendships and proposes a methodology called critical cuteness that makes it possible to alleviate the flattening of animals’ stories effected by the aesthetics of cuteness. The methodology is based on exposing the incongruity between the affective functions of animal imagery and their ethological interpretation and on recovering the individual animals’ life stories. …”
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“This loose, drifting material of life:” Virginia Woolf’s Diaries and memoirs as Private Epitexts by Annalisa FEDERICI

“…Virginia Woolf’s literary output is characterised by remarkable homogeneity and coherence between aesthetic principles on the one hand and formal aspects on the other, some qualities which her readers and critics have long recognised, thanks to her diaries, letters and memoirs. …”
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COEVOLUTIONARY SEMANTICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION GENESIS AND EVOLUTIONARY RISK (BETWEEN THE BIOAESTHETICS AND BIOPOLITICS) by V. T. Cheshko, O. M. Kuz

“…Purpose (metatask) of the present work is to attempt to give a glance at the problem of existential and anthropological risk caused by the contemporary man-made civilization from the perspective of comparison and confrontation of aesthetics, the substrate of which is emotional and metaphorical interpretation of individual subjective values and politics feeding by objectively rational interests of social groups. …”
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Acedia and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King by Zuzanna Ladyga

“…Wallace’s novel employs acedia as the mode of its subjectivity and its main theme, thus creating a unique, recursive aesthetics, which is resistant to “productive” interpretations. …”
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Techniques de consciences du corps énergétiques et poétiques by Marceau Chenault

“…With the references of Richard Shusterman works about the somaesthetic, we are addressing this embodied aesthetic of qi-breathing between somatic perceptions and body consciousness with various cultural interpretations, and its contemporary flow between health experiential knowledge, somatic teaching learning and artistic training. …”
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Rereading Ambiguity in Ahmadrezā Ahmadī’s Pattern based on William Empson's Theory by Nematollah Iranzadeh, Mozhghan Jafarmanesh

“…By examining new-wave poetry based on the types and the degree of ambiguity, we will recognize new horizons of aesthetics that will help us improve our interpretation skills and enjoy modern poetry more. …”
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Comparison of behind-the-ear vs. off-the-ear speech processors in cochlear implants: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. by Muhammed Ayas, Jameel Muzaffar, Veronica Phillips, Manohar Bance

“…For non-audiological factors, OTE processors excelled in comfort, handling, and aesthetics, leading to higher satisfaction. More data on medical complications and long-term implications is needed.…”
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English motivational discourse in the light of postmodernist tradition by Gilyasev Yu.V.

“…The paper provides the description of particular aspects of the English motivational discourse in the light of wide-spread postmodernist aesthetics. It is aimed at explicating postmodernist mode in the motivational literature in English. …”
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Music Theory: Speculation, Reasoning, Experience. A Perspective from Systematic Musicology by Albrecht Schneider

“…Besides historical research devoted to the reconstruction and interpretation of source material relevant to (‘western’) music theory, one finds studies with a focus on the description of individual works or on the ‘poetics’ of certain composers. …”
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DEFINING THE CONCEPTS & APPROACHES IN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE STUDIES by Ali Asadpour

“…These approaches represented the movement from documentation to interpretation, objectivity to subjectivity, and primitive to ordinary in the studies. …”
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