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Questioning Walking Tourism from a Phenomenological Perspective: Epistemological and Methodological Innovations 现象学视角下的徒步旅游质疑:认识论与方法论创新

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 DOI: 10.3390/h12040065

Chiara Rabbiosi, S. Meneghello

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Adaptation, Parody, and Disabled Masculinity in Motherless Brooklyn 《没有母亲的布鲁克林》中的改编、戏仿与残疾男子气概

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 DOI: 10.3390/h12040066

Christina Wilkins

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Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White 不合时宜:夏洛特Brontë的《简·爱》和威尔基·柯林斯的《白衣女人》中失去规范的时间

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 DOI: 10.3390/h12040064

Drumlin N. M. Crape

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Unveiling the Oppressed Body: Female Dalit Body Politics in India through Baburao Bagul and Yashica Dutt 揭露被压迫的身体:从巴布劳·巴古尔和亚希卡·杜特看印度的女性达利特身体政治

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 DOI: 10.3390/h12040063

B. Cherechés

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South Asian COVID-19 Memoirs: Mourning and Erasure of “Grievable Lives” 南亚COVID-19回忆录:哀悼和抹去“悲惨的生命”

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 DOI: 10.3390/h12040062

L. Basu

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The Practices and Positionings of a Postcolonial Counterpublic: An Analysis of Black Lives Matter in Denmark 后殖民反公众的实践与定位:对丹麦黑人生命问题的分析

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.3390/h12040061

Bolette B. Blaagaard

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Blue Chambers, Bluebooks, and Contes Bleus: Gothic Terror and Female Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Adaptations of ‘Bluebeard’ 《蓝色房间》、《蓝皮书》和《祝福》：19世纪改编的《蓝胡子》中的哥特式恐怖和女性恶魔

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.3390/h12040060

Alessandro Cabiati

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The Slow Refugee: Transit as Stasis, Narrative Ethics, and Level Telling Fields 《缓慢的难民》：作为停滞的过渡、叙事伦理与水平场

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 DOI: 10.3390/h12040059

Roy Sommer

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Ut sophistes pictor: An Introduction to the Sophistic Contribution to Aesthetics 论诡辩家的画匠：诡辩家对美学的贡献

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 DOI: 10.3390/h12040058

C. Guest

{"title":"Ut sophistes pictor: An Introduction to the Sophistic Contribution to Aesthetics","authors":"C. Guest","doi":"10.3390/h12040058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/h12040058","url":null,"abstract":"This essay provides an introduction to the question of the contribution of the ancient sophists to aesthetics in Western art. It commences by examining the persistent analogies to visual arts in negative and positive discussions of sophistry, both philosophical and rhetorical, and proceeds to examine sophistic rhetoric in Gorgias, Aristides, Lucian, Philostratus and Byzantine ekphrasis, culminating with Philostratus’ discussions of mimesis and phantasia in Apollonius of Tyana. The discussions of the relation of being and nonbeing in Gorgias’ On Nonbeing and in Plato’s Sophist form the ontological core of sophistic claims about imaginative invention and the sophistic advancement of voluntary illusion (apatē) as a means to poetic “justice” or “truth”. Such claims should be considered in the light of the epistemological and ontological skepticism propounded by Gorgias. Although the opprobrium attached to sophistry obscures its later influence, we can nevertheless discern a sophistic aesthetic tradition focused on the reflective reception of artworks that re-emerges in the Renaissance. In the last section, I adumbrate the lines of study for examining a sophistic Renaissance in the visual arts, with attention to antiquarianism as an area where the significance of the beholder’s imaginative projection suggests the endurance—or revitalization—of sophistic aesthetics.","PeriodicalId":93761,"journal":{"name":"Humanities (Basel, Switzerland)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42756741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Letter Troubles: Rereading Futon in Conversation with Japan’s Epistolary Discourse 书信的烦恼:与日本书信话语对话中的复读蒲团

Humanities (Basel, Switzerland) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.3390/h12040057

Kevin Niehaus

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