Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "aesthetics"
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Apocalypse and the Algorithm: Muslim Spiritual Cultivation as Critique
In this thesis, I advance a Muslim way to think about politics, ground it in an ethics, and then consider what aesthetics accompany that political-ethical orientation. In response to a totalizing and intertwining set of ... -
Beyond the Factory Gates: Detroit and the Aesthetics of Fordism, 1903-1941
(2014-06-06)This dissertation analyzes the ways in which the new mode of industrial organization associating mass production with mass consumption in the early twentieth century--what we call Fordism--had profound cultural repercussions ... -
Bi-Musical Moves In Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Little Joe Hernández
(University of Arizona, Department of German Studies, 2012)Meditating on works of fiction such as Crosthwaite’s El gran preténder (1992) and Laviera’s AmeRican (1985), this article proposes bi-musicality (Hood 1960) as both a link between sociolinguistics and literary aesthetics ... -
Dependence on Persons and Dependence on Things in Rousseau's Social, Psychological, and Aesthetic Theory
(2018-03-02)Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often associated with a certain political form of relating to another as a person, where a person is seen as a locus of enforceable demands. Nevertheless, as I argue in this dissertation, Rousseau ... -
Enduring Images: Mourning and Aesthetics in Twentieth-Century French Literature (Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Hervé Guibert)
(2021-07-12)This dissertation studies the intersection of writing, mourning, and aesthetics in twentieth-century French literature. I examine how the act of beholding aesthetic objects is represented in writing as a way to suspend the ... -
Preserving the Picturesque: Perceptions of Landscape, Landscape Art, and Land Protection in the United States and China
(MDPI, 2014)The predominant environmental consciousness in both the United States and China reflects an underlying sense of separation of people from nature. Likewise, traditional landscape paintings in the United States and China ... -
Representational Realism in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Changing Visual Cultures in Mughal India and Safavid Iran, 1580-1750
(2014-10-21)The concept of realism in visual representation has been defined and deployed largely within the domain of the Western artistic canon. In the field of art history, the term is often used in ways that depend on implicit, ... -
The Sciences of Subjectivity
(SAGE Publications, 2012)In historical and ethnographic studies of the making of scientific knowledge, there has been a long-standing fascination with deflating certain stories about objectivity. Among the resources used to achieve that deflation ... -
Theory and Practice of Sublime Vulnerability in the Works of Friedrich Schiller
(2023-05-12)Friedrich Schiller’s (1759–1805) dramatic and poetic figures share the struggle to establish agency in tyrannical, chauvinistic contexts. The present dissertation applies Schiller’s own aesthetic theory to close readings ... -
"Unser Dasein starrt von Büchern": Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Crisis of Authorship
(2012-10-22)This dissertation traces the development of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's attempts to find solutions to what he perceived to be the crisis of meaning in his time. I focus primarily on Hofmannsthal's fictional letters and ...