The Insistence of Art Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity /

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The Pathos of the Real On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century / by Buch, Robert

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Grotesque Figures Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

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Perverse Romanticism Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750–1832 / by Sha, Richard C.

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Parodies of Ownership Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law / by Schur, Richard L.

Table of Contents: “…The consequences of hip-hop aesthetics.…”
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Transfigured World Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism / by Williams, Carolyn, 1950-

Subjects: “…Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 Aesthetics.…”
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The Total Work of Art in European Modernism by Roberts, David, 1937-

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Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime by Canuel, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Beautiful people -- Doing justice in aesthetics -- The reparative impulse -- Biopolitics and the sublime -- Aesthetics and animal theory.…”
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Painting Women Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture / by Phillippy, Patricia Berrahou, 1960-

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Esthétique et recyclages culturels Explorations de la culture contemporaine /

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Play Redux The Form of Computer Games / by Myers, David, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Bad play -- Anti-ness -- Formalism redux -- Interface and code -- The computer game anti-aesthetic -- Anti-narrative -- The backstory -- Civilization -- Social play -- City of Heroes -- Play and punishment -- Final comments.…”
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The Work of Poverty Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis / by Duerfahrd, Lance Alfred, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Begging context -- Godot behind bars -- Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo and New Orleans -- La pensee vagabonde : vagabond thought -- Textual indigence : the reader in an aesthetics of poverty -- Afterword. Staging Godot in Zuccotti Park.…”
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My Life as a Night Elf Priest An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft / by Nardi, Bonnie A.

Table of Contents: “…-- An ethnographic invetigation of World of warcraft -- Play as aesthetic experience -- A new medium -- Work, play, and the magic circle -- Addiction -- Theorycraft and mods -- Gender -- Culture : WoW in China-and North America.…”
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Poetry's Afterlife Verse in the Digital Age / by Stein, Kevin, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…[1.] On poets & aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? …”
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Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by Kanwit, John Paul M., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Art criticism and mid-Victorian exhibitions -- Interpreting Cleopatra : aesthetic guidance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Sensational sentiments : impressionism and the protection of difficulty in late-Victorian art criticism -- Conclusion : "An astonishingly tasteless idea"? …”
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Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / by Barton, John Cyril

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.…”
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Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England by Myers, Anne M.

Table of Contents: “…Helen's Bishopsgate: antiquarianism and aesthetics in modern London.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Writing National Cinema Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru / by Middents, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…A history of the Peruvian cinematic tradition -- Publication, authority, identity: constructing the film journal -- Shaping Peruvian taste: "good" and "bad" Peruvian movies -- Latin American dis/connections: Peru versus the new Latin American cinema -- For a few minutes: considering the short-film industry -- Creating the "Lombardi generation": the rise of an urban cinematic aesthetic -- The changing of the guard: Peruvian cinema in the twenty-first century.…”
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Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 / by Josephson, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Technological utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s -- Proletarian aesthetics : technology and socialism in Eastern Europe -- From kimchi to concrete : the North Korean experiment -- Floating reactors : nuclear hubris after the fall of communism -- Industrial deserts : technology and environmental degradation under socialism -- No hard hats, no steel-toed shoes required : worker safety in the proletarian paradise -- The gendered tractor.…”
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