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“professor werner wolf”

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  • The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts

    by Dr Jiri Koten, Dr Emily Troscianko, Dr Thomas Pavel, Dr Martin Pokorny, Dr Fredrik Stjernberg, Professor Werner Wolf, Professor Karel Thein, Professor Enrico Terrone, Professor Marco Caracciolo, Professor Petr Kotatko ...
    The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader's or viewer's sense of having entered the represented world while at the same time keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Nonconformity

    Writing on Writing

    by Nelson Algren, Daniel Simon, C.S. O'Brien ...
    The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)

    by Paul Crowther ...
    Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gives unique aesthetic ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Aesthetics

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Charles Taliaferro ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Explaining what art is and what’s not art.What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through different theories of art and beauty, tackling issues such as who owns art and what happens when art ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Creative Enterprise

    Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace

    by Martha Buskirk ...
    Series series International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
    In the face of unparalleled growth and a truly global audience, the popularity of contemporary art has clearly become a double-edged affair. Today, an unprecedented number of museums, galleries, biennial-style exhibitions, and art fairs display new work in all its variety, while art schools continue to inject fresh talent onto the scene at an accelerated rate. In the process, however, contemporary ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Hatred of Music

    by Pascal Quignard ...
    Translated by Matthew Amos, Fredrik Rönnbäck ...
    Throughout Pascal Quignard’s distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the rediscovery of much forgotten classical music. Yet in 1994 he abruptly renounced all musical activities. The Hatred of Music is Quignard’s masterful ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Art

    An Introduction

    by Theodore Gracyk ...
    The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Chapters on standard topics are balanced by topics of interest to today's students, including creativity, authenticity, cultural appropriation, and the distinction between popular and fine art. Other topics include emotive expression, pictorial representation, ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Aristotle and the Arc of the Tragedy

    Oedipus Rex, Othello, Death of a Salesman

    by Leon Golden ...
    Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy is the latest of Leon Golden's books to connect Ancient Greece to modern culture. In a world facing many pressing issues Classics professor Golden wants to champion the values and achievements of Classical Civilization. He asserts that Homeric Epic and Greek Tragedy are as relevant today as they were millennia ago because they are riveting and insightful studies of ... Read more

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  • Decomposition

    A Music Manifesto

    by Andrew Durkin ...
    Decomposition is a bracing, revisionary, and provocative inquiry into music—from Beethoven to Duke Ellington, from Conlon Nancarrow to Evelyn Glennie—as a personal and cultural experience: how it is composed, how it is idiosyncratically perceived by critics and reviewers, and why we listen to it the way we do.Andrew Durkin, best known as the leader of the West Coast–based Industrial Jazz Group, is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Isn’t that Clever

    A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy

    by Steven Gimbel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Isn’t That Clever provides a new account of the nature of humor – the cleverness account – according to which humor is intentional conspicuous acts of playful cleverness. By defining humor in this way, answers can be found to longstanding questions about humor ethics (Are there jokes that are wrong to tell? Are there jokes that can only be told by certain people?) and humor aesthetics (What makes ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato

    by Rana Saadi Liebert ...
    This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic conceptions of both poetry and mourning that suggest a common source of pleasure in ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Blackpentecostal Breath

    The Aesthetics of Possibility

    by Ashon T. Crawley ...
    Series series Commonalities
    In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or “otherwise” modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD