Learning from Nature: Feminism, Allegory and Ostriches in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…It examines how the ostrich participates in an aesthetic of relations, which ranges from Schreiner’s allegorical practice to the reader’s method of interpreting the novel.…”
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Le « dedans » et le « dehors » by Estelle Mouton-Rovira

“…We will therefore study three examples of how contemporary fictions devise our interpretative practices and challenges the power relations that lie into critical and theoretical speeches: the reflexive aesthetic of Éric Chevillard that reshapes the reader’s theoretical role, the tension between literary value and the implications of reading in Emmanuelle Pireyre’s books, and the reflection about subjectivation in reading in Arno Bertina’s writing. …”
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Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė: Why Classic? by Dalia Čiočytė

“…In the opinion of the researcher, the pinnacles of literary art are those works which, by employing aesthetic persuasion, interpret the classical ideas of the Western world: the ideas of the absolute value of the personality, freedom, and the primate of the spirit. …”
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‘A place for everyone who gets it’: by Charlotte Johanne Fabricius

“…Investigating Starr’s visual style and aesthetic strategies, as well as the platformed visibility labor she engages in, the article argues that Peachgate can be seen as an indication of the potential for this work to transform from an intimate public to an affective public, although only if allowed to circulate beyond the intentions and preferred interpretations offered by Starr. …”
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Illuminating Museums. From Design to Experience by Viviana Gobbato

“…It studies its functions in the process of interpreting, transmitting and receiving collections. …”
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La vie, la mort et la résurrection des objets archéologiques by Anne-Lise Guigues, Zahra Hashemi

“…The Luristan bronzes illustrate the complexity of writing history in relation to new archaeological interpretations.…”
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Wilde’s French Salomé by Emily Eells

“…A study of the manuscript versions of his play reveals his limited knowledge of French, though this paper interprets the mistakes as key to his poetic achievement. …”
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Packaging the Naked Buddhas by Dina Bangdel

“…I consider how traditional artists see themselves meeting the expectations of tourists, by constructing categories of the aesthetic tastes of the “other,” based on specific national identities in a global context. …”
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Les plantes comme liant actif entre la terre et le paysage. Trois projets artistiques d’Agnes Denes, de Lois Weinberger et de Mali Wu by Catherine Grout

“…In this article addressing the issues of the urban context, the landscape and the land, in situ artistic interventions by Agnes Denes, Lois Weinberger and Mali Wu are studied from an aesthetic perspective. The analysis of the approaches and of these projects focuses on ways of considering the soil, plants, and the act of planting, and on how they relate to several interpretations of the landscape. …”
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L’univers esthétique des photographies de Cy Twombly et le renouvellement du regard sur son œuvre by Chiara Agradi

“…Far from being simply decorative, the Louvre ceiling could be interpreted as a large photograph, a fugitive piece of reality captured and circumscribed in the space of a limited frame.…”
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Une vie de saint Benoît à la mode toulousaine : Le Dret cami del Cél (1659) de Bernard Grimaud by Jean-François Courouau

“…The biographical account contains vast scenes of a very baroque aesthetic that today might be described as burlesque. …”
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De l’individuel au collectif, des mythes aux pratiques by Véronique Zamant

“…The results raised questions concerning the aesthetic, political and eco-symbolic relations established by the inhabitants with their living environment, on the one hand, and on the other hand, made it possible to draw a map of a “cultural landscape” as perceived by the inhabitants. …”
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Inmigración asiática y homoerotismo: nuevas configuraciones de la otredad en el teatro argentino actual by Beatriz Trastoy

“…The recent Asian immigration established in Buenos Aires since the 70’ brings forth new ethic and aesthetic issues in plays which deal with the question of otherness in a wide sense. …”
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The Tomb of D. Rodrigo Sanches: the rediscovery of an iconographic program by Carla Varela Fernandes

“…The responsibility of being the first time that the work is studied in its entirety leads to the presentation of proposals, interpretive hypotheses, rather than conclusions.…”
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AMERİKAN FELSEFESİNİN YENİDEN CANLANIŞI: JOHN J. MCDERMOTT by Celal Türer

“…He wants to develop an "aesthetic sensibility" revealing "how we and others feel our situation and feel about our situation. …”
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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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On the transformation of regional food systems: From autochthonous to those generated by globalization by Svetlana Kornekova

“… Attention is focused on the historical transformation of regional food systems. The latter are interpreted as diversified, regionally defined systems of production, transportation, consumption, as well as aesthetic and spiritual perception of food products based on the use of resources, both of local origin and those attracted from outside. …”
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Sowiecki dzikus, cuchnący dorsz i Muza – Władysława Chodasiewicza widzenie Petersburga by Jolanta Brzykcy

“… The aim of this article is to analyze and interpret Vladislav Khodasevich’s poem Petersburg (Петербург, 1925), in which the poet evokes the image of the city during the war communism period from the distance of emigration. …”
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Dwelling in the Abyss: Society in Werner Herzog and Martin Heidegger by Haotian Wu

“…This article’s primary purpose is to redress society’s overly negative connotation as monstrous and unhomely in Herzog and, against the predominant critical interpretations and Herzog’s self-commentary, discover the homely therein. …”
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The Culture as System, the System of Culture: Aleksandr Bogdanov on Proletarian Culture and Proletarian Art by Soboleva Maja

“…In this part, I analyze his organizational account of culture and interpret his tektological approach as a theory of the social dimensions of culture and the cultural dimensions of society. …”
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