Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring 2021) – Regular Issue [Dedicated to the Loving Memory of Sushil K. Saxena (1921-2013), Former Professor of Philosophy, University of Delhi, on his Birth Centenary]
ARTICLES
- David Fenner – Reading Ritualized Space
- Michel Dion – George Eliot and Marcel Proust: The Religious Feeling and the Paradoxical Temporality
- Max Ryynänen – Learning from Dr. Dre: Teaching Aesthetics and Art Theory to Artists
- Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow – The Play’s das Thing: On the Incommensurability of Arendtian Political Action and the Kantian Sublime
- Oindri Roy – Bridging the Gaps: Towards a New Paradigmatic Interface of Translation Studies and Comparative Literature
- Yue Wang – In Search of Humanity: A Bakhtinian Dialogic Study of The Sound and the Fury
- Sangeetha Puthiyedath & Sreedharan T. – Aesthetics and Ethics: Convergence and Divergence in Plato and Aristotle
- Bowen Wang – Demystification of the “Innocent Eye”: Nelson Goodman, Ernst H. Gombrich, and the Limitation of Conventionalism
- Muskaan Kapoor – The Present-Day Medusa: Foregrounding L’ecriture Feminism in the Contemporary Retellings of Mythology
- Wang Chutong – What Does It All Mean? An Approach to Aesthetics of Ancient Chinese Poetry
- Tingwen Xu – Right to Untranslatability and Hospitality of World Literature
- Mridula Sharma – Revisiting Bernard Rose’s Frankenstein: Ugliness and Exclusion
- Yuying Liang – The Production of Space and Representation of Culture: A Case Study of the Opening Ceremony of Beijing Olympics
- Prashant Kumar – Reimagining the Notion of Imagination: A Kantian Perspective
- Monica Choudhary – Is it easy to forget Allama Iqbal? A Search for Progressive Religion and Recrudescence of Reason
- Catarina Pombo Nabais – The Museum Today: Towards a Participatory and Emancipated Heterology
- José L. Fernández – Hugo, Hegel, and Architecture
- Mukulika Dattagupta – Weaving Cityscapes with Oral Narratives: A Study of Select Travel Narratives by Biswanath Ghosh
- Anwesha Sahoo – Interpreting ‘madwomen’: A Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Pratibha Ray’s “The Eyes”
NOTES AND DISCUSSION
BOOK REVIEWS
- Muralikrishnan T.R. – Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity (Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries). By John Pendergast
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – B. Goel: Critical Writings on Art 1957-1998. By Shruti Parthasarathy (Ed.)
- Ritushree Sengupta – Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora: Interpreting Gender, Texts and Contexts. By Ajay K. Chaubey and Shilpa Daithota Bhat
- Oindrila Ghosh – The Death Script: Dreams and Delusions in Naxal Country. By Ashutosh Bhardwaj
- Anwesha Sahoo – Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World. By Allison Surtees and Jennifer Dyer
- Samuel Bendeck Sotillos – The Unhindered Path: Ruminations on Shin Buddhism. By John Paraskevopoulos
- Samuel Bendeck Sotillos– A Living Islamic City: Fez and Its Preservation. By Titus Burckhardt, Jean-Louis Michon & Joseph A. Fitzgerald (Eds.). Jane Casewit (Trans.).
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JCLA Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2021 [Supplement]: Gendering Pandemic
- Luca Sarti – #Stayhome, Don’t Go Out! Reading “Fair, Brown, and Trembling” in the Time of Covid-19
- Neha Nimble – Disaster and Intersectional Vulnerabilities: Loss of Livelihoods among Female Domestic Workers during Covid-19 and its Communalisation
- Laboni Mukherjee – Sell-Outs or Home Girls? : Popular Media, Race, Intersectional Feminist Strategies, and Covid-19
- Parvathi M.S. – The Rhetoric of Privacy and the Gendering of
Domestic Violence in the Covid-19 Pandemic - Anusua Singh Roy, Nandini Sen & Subrata Sankar Bagchi – Gender-Based Violence in India: Covid-19 Lockdown
- Rianka Roy – Working from Home: Women in the Indian Tech-industry through the Pandemic
- Fathima E.V. and Savitha E. – Gendered Inequalities of Access: Online Classes in the Times of the Pandemic
- Pujarinee Mitra – The Vande Bharat Scam: Women, Social Standing, and Evacuation flights to India under Covid-19
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Vol. 43, No. 4 (Winter 2020) Special Issue: The Eternal Return of Myth (Vol. III) – The Fascination with Myths in Contemporary (Audio)visual Productions
- Laura Pereira Domínguez – Presentation of the Contributions
- Metka Zupancic – Films, the Visual, and their Effects on our Minds and Emotions
- Luis Alberto Pérez-Amezcua & Ethel Junco – Myths of Femininity in American Gods
- Laura Pereira Domínguez – Virginity, Wilderness, and Bows: Diana’s Return in Contemporary Cinema
- Rosa María Stoops – Game of Thrones: Ser Brienne of Tarth and a Feminine Reinterpretation of Classical Heroes
- Indrani Mukherjee – “Seeing” the Malinche Myth as Nomad Subject in Laura Esquivel’s Como agua para chocolate
- Juan González-Etxeberría – The Forbidden Gaze: Orphic Visuality and Loss in Atom Egoyan’s Exotica
- María Porras Sánchez – Monstrous Heroes, Epic Monsters: A Contemporary Graphic Adaptation of Beowulf
- Pablo Medina – Kratos, Mythical Father
- Katarzyna Jerzak – Mutilated Images in Contemporary Martial Society: Between Mythology and Memory
- Xiana Sotelo – Testing the Resilience of the Myth in the Audiovisual Creation (Review Article)
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Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn 2020) – Regular Issue
ARTICLES
- Jonathan Culler – A Different Approach to the Sublime
- Rafe McGregor – The Logic of Adventure: Marlow’s Moral Malady in Lord Jim
- Andrew J. Ball – Redemptive Mourning: Virginia Woolf’s Transformation of the Elegiac Form
- Hawk Chang – From Sight to Touch: Female Identity in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney
- Vivek Sachdeva – Narrating Terror: The Sound-Image Montage in Literature and Cinema with special reference to Gurvinder Singh’s Chauthi-Koot
- Debjani Banerjee – “And Kabir Stands in the Marketplace”: Politics and Poetics in an Era of Global Strife
- Marta Aleksandrowicz – Feeling-in-Common/ Being-in-Common as a Possibility of Feeling Alive: Kant with Nancy
- Prashant Kumar and Rajnee Devi – Existentialist’s Traits in Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha: An Ontological Inquiry
- Pooja Mittal Biswas – The Mythification of History and the Historification of Myth: Myth and Mimesis in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel
- Deepshikha Behera – Untranslatability as Resistance: A Study of Mahashweta Devi’s Draupadi
- Sreejata Roy – Women’s Friendships as Sites of Resistance: A Study of Two ‘Bombay Novels’
- Yuying Liang – The Spatial Imperative: The Need to Read Space in Salman Rushdie’s Novels
SYMPOSIUM ON AESTHETIC TASTE
- Michael Spicher – Introduction to the Symposium on Aesthetic Taste
- João Lemos – A Taste of Moral Concerns: On the Applied Judgment of Taste
- José L. Fernández – Kant’s Feeling: Why a Judgment of Taste is De Dicto Necessary
- Carsten Friberg – Taste and Surveillance Capitalism
- Michael Spicher – Aesthetic Taste Now: A Look Beyond Art and the History of Philosophy
BOOK REVIEWS
- Bijay K. Danta – Literary Allusion in Harry Potter. By Beatrice Groves
- Didier Maleuvre – Littérature et politique en Océanie (Literature and Politics in Oceania). Andréas Pfersmann and Titaua Porcher (Eds.)
- Stuart Walton – A Companion to Adorno (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy). By Peter E. Gordon, Espen Hammer and Max Pensky (Eds.)
- Michael R. Spicher – Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford). By Bence Nanay
- Samuel Bendeck Sotillos – Keys to the Beyond: Frithjof Schuon’s Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence. By Patrick Laude
- Reju George Mathew – Dynamics of Subaltern Consciousness: Critical Perspectives. By Bishnu Charan Dash
- Jadumani Mahanand – The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal. By Axel Honneth (Translated by Joseph Ganahl)
- Shaista Irshad – Believing Women In Islam: A Brief Introduction. By Asma Barlas
- Sounak Das – Translating Odisha. By Paul St-Pierre
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Vol. 43, No. 3 Autumn 2020 [SUPPLEMENT]
Speculating Identities and Defying Stereotypes: South Asian Women Writers and Idealistic Mobilities
- Raeesa Usmani and Ritushree Sengupta – Introduction
- Alya Ansari – Caste, Class, and the Contradictions of Capital in Mahasweta’s Dhowli
- Peter Krause – Antigone in Pakistan: Home Fire, by Kamila Shamsie
- Mukul Chaturvedi – Recasting Caste: History, Memory and Identity in Dalit Women’s Testimonios
- Anindita Shome and Somjeeta Pandey – Dalit Women Autobiographies: Contesting Caste and Class Oppression
- Sanju Thomas – Converging Concerns, Diverging Destinies: A Reading of Lalithambika Antharjanam and K Saraswathi Amma
- Nishtha Pandey – Reading K.R. Meera’s Hangwoman as a Critique of Biopolitical Control
- Kalyani Hazri – De-stabilising Gender and Nation: Thematic Analysis of Shubhangi Swaroop’s Latitudes of Longing
- Monica Chaudhary – Exploring the Political Function of Gender in Contemporary Nationalism
- Srija Sanyal – An Indomitable Urge to Penetrate the World of Words: Reading Amar Jiban in South Asian Context
- Ekabali Ghosh – The Move to Normativity and the Regime of Punishment in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man
- Aindrila Choudhury – Performative Insurgencies at the Margins: Constructions of Alternative Histories through Folk Wisdom among Dalit Women
- Dipanwita Ganguly – Many Shades of ‘Woman’: Patriarchy and Gender Relations in Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage
- Tanusree Ghosh – Mahabharata Today: Tradition and Modernity in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions and Kavita Kane’s Karna’s Wife
- Raeesa Usmani – Travel as Pilgrimage: South Asian Travel Writing as a Mode of Constructing Knowledge
- Ritushree Sengupta – Transcreating the Metaphors of the Wife, Whore and the Lover: Translating the Tale of Female Body in Select Works of Taslima Nasrin
- Pallab Das – Making and Breaking of Bengali Hindu Women: Placing Partition Memoirs by Bengali Hindu Women against “Broto Katha”
- Richa Chilana – Language, Politics and Practice of Purdah in Twentieth Century Indian Women Writers
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Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer 2020) – Special Issue on the Sublime
In Fond Memory of our Founding Editor Prof. Ananta Charan Sukla (6 Nov 1942 – 30 Sep 2020)
- Peter Lamarque – In Memoriam: Ananta Charan Sukla (6 Nov 1942 – 30 Sep 2020)
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – ‘Of Aspect more Sublime’: A Foreword
- Nicole A. Hall – On the Cusp of the Sublime: Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch
- José L. Fernández – Kantian Sublimity and Supersensible Comfort: A Case for the Mathematical Sublime
- Ida Klitgård – Tweaking the Sublime: Translating the Poetics of the Sublime in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
- Isaac Joslin – Society and Spectacle: The Sublimation of Reality in Baroque Aesthetics
- Jeremy Meckler – Disorder and Devastation: Searching for the Sublime in Horrific Sports Injuries
- Miguel Angel Gaete – From Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog to the iCloud: A Comparative Analysis between the Romantic Concept of the Sublime and Cyberspace
- Glen W. Hicks – Anthony Philip Heinrich’s Thundering of Niagara: Hearing American Sublimity
- Marinica Tiberiu Schiopu – The Sublime in Mircea Eliade’s Fiction
- Ikea M. Johnson – On Compassion and the Sublime Black Body: Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
- Amrita Bhattacharyya – From a Context-bound to an Essentializing Conception: A Study of Longinus’s Treatise On the Sublime
- Adam J. Marcinkowski – Feeling Thoughts: The Swarming Sublime in Longinus’ On Sublimity
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – Shelley’s Suicidal Sublime
BOOK REVIEWS
- Suvendu Ghatak – Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism (By G. S. Sahota)
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – Stepping Westward (By Nigel Leask)
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Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring 2020)
Prof. P. S. Sastri (1920-2006) Birth Centenary Commemoration Volume
ARTICLES
- Peter Lamarque – On Not Being Too Formalistic About Aesthetic Value
- Garry L. Hagberg – Hume, Aesthetic Perception, and Our Disputations of Taste: An Exposition
- Thomas W. Leddy – Johann Herder’s Sculpture, Somaesthetics and Everyday Aesthetics
- Robert R. Clewis – How to Distinguish and Reconcile Sensitive and Conceptual Taste
- Laura T. Di Summa-Knoop – Aesthetics and Ethics: On the Power of Aesthetic Features
Georgios Tsagdis – Tears of Potentiality, Love of Liquid Rupture - Subhasree Dash & Bibhudatta Dash – Metaphysics of Moksa: A Philosophical Anatomy of the Concept of Liberation in the Bhagavad Gita
- Ikea M. Johnson – Revisiting Recognition: Buddhist Philosophy in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
- Pooja Mittal Biswas – Salman Rushdie as Diasporic Myth-Maker: Myth and Memory in Midnight’s Children
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – William Wordsworth, “Yew Trees” and the Menace of the Sublime
DISCUSSION
- Nicole A. Hall – Why we Shouldn’t Give up on Aesthetic Experience
- Washington Morales Maciel – On Narrative Opacity and Literary Truth
- Yanping Gao – Affect, Asia, and Disability: Roots and Issues of Somaesthetics: Conversations with Richard Shusterman
BOOK REVIEWS
- Himansu Mohapatra – The Adventures of the Man in Gold: Paths Between Art and Life, A Philosophical Tale. By Richard Shusterman and Yann Toma.
- Barbara Leonardi – Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding. By Garry L. Hagberg (Ed.).
- Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow – Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism. By Lydia L. Moland.
- Namrata Chaturvedi – Epistemology and Linguistics: Bhartåhari, Structuralism and Poststructuralism. By Prabha Shankar Dwivedi.
- Malcolm Keating – Categories, Creation and Cognition in Vaiçeñika Philosophy. By ShashiPrabha Kumar.
- Ikea M. Johnson – Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim IryOp. By Jin Y. Park.
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – The Sublime Reader. By Robert R. Clewis (Ed.).
- Pietro Terzi – Adorno and Popular Music: A Constellation of Perspectives. By C. Campbell, S. Gandesha and S. Marino (Eds.).
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – Philosophy and Poetry: Continental Perspectives. By Ranjan Ghosh (Ed.).
- Kenneth Nsah – Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination. By John Charles Ryan.
- Ankita Sundriyal – Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal. By Varuni Bhatia.
- Bansidhar Deep – Ambedkar and Other Immortals: An Untouchable Research Programme. By Soumyabrata Choudhury.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Vol. 42, No. 2 (Autumn 2019)
Prof. Martin Jay 75th Birth Anniversary Felicitation Volume
ARTICLES
- Peter E. Gordon – “Post-Structuralism was never a Unified Movement with a Single Perspective”: Conversations with Martin Jay
- Martin Jay – Timbremelancholy: Walter Benjamin and the Fate of Philately
- Didier Maleuvre – The Disappearance of 1984
- Keith Moser – Edgar Morin’s “Complex Thought”: A Blueprint for Reconstituting our Ecological Self in the Anthropocene Epoch?
- Andrew J. Ball – Listening by Echo: Voice, Eidetic Image, and the Retrospective Self
- Michael R. Spicher – Hope Coming On: Reflecting Nihilism
- Anway Mukhopadhyay – Everyday Aesthetics and the Indic Goddess Traditions: An Aurobindonian Approach
- Isaac Joslin – Aesthetics and Intertexts of Resistance and Liberation in the African Diaspora: Hip-Hop and Créolité
- Vicky Panossian – Paralleling Aesthetics: Vestiges of Nineteenth-Century England in Blake’s Illustrations of Dante’s Inferno
- Galin Penev – The Iconic Meaning of Hypostasis: Notes on a Definition of Icon
- Anirban Ray – Cleopatra VII Philopator’s Final Moments: Depictions in Five Paintings
- Ikea M. Johnson – Buddhist Recognition in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
- Salvatore Giuffré – A Brief Transcultural Reading of the Greek Myth of Orpheus and his Quest in the Modern Sonnets of Feng Zhi
DISCUSSION
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – “The Method of ‘Ecstasy’” and Keats’ ‘Ode on Melancholy’
- Sylvia Borissova – Aesthetics of Dress: Dress as Poetic Object, Paradigmatic Body Form, and Basic Archetype for Living
- Max Rynnänen – Rasafication: The Aesthetic Manipulation of our Everyday
BOOK REVIEWS
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – Theory of The Lyric (Jonathan Culler)
- Simone Puleo & Jaron Murphy – Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature (Garry L. Hagberg)
- Matteo Ravasio – Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding (Garry L. Hagberg)
- Stuart Walton & Maximilian Huschke – Adorno and Existence (Peter E. Gordon)
- Devika Brendon & Tiago Clariano – The Opacity of Narrative (Peter Lamarque)
- Ton Kruse – The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought: The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality and Art (Mark Johnson)
- Manisha Mishra – Basanti: Writing the New Woman (Trans. Himansu S. Mohapatra And Paul St-Pierre)
- Barbara Leonardi – James Hogg and British Romanticism: A Kaleidoscopic Art (Meiko O’halloran)
- Pragya Ghosh – Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming (Kimerer L. Lamothe)
- Pragya Ghosh – Considering Ethics in Dance, Theatre and Performance (Fiona Bannon)
- Vijeta Saini – Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas: Local Habitations (Poonam Trivedi And Paromita Chakravarti)
- Xiongbo Shi – Aesthetics and Art: Traditional and Contemporary China in a Comparative Perspective (Jianping Gao)
- Aaron Lee Moore – Literature and Literary Theory in Contemporary China (Zhang Jiong)
- Nikolina Deleva – An Old Melody in a New Song: Aesthetics and the Art of Psychology (Luca Tateo)
- Ankita Sundriyal & Shouvik Narayan Hore – The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions: Devi as Corpse (Anway Mukhopadhyay)
FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Vol. 42, No. 1 (Spring 2019)
Prof. Jonathan Culler 75th Birth Anniversary Felicitation Volume
ARTICLES
- Jonathan Culler – Lyric, Language, Culture
- Didier Maleuvre – Bougainville Against the Tide
- James Wetzel – At the Crossroads of Contentment: Variations on an Augustinian Theme
- Jerold J. Abrams – Philosophy of Prehistoric Painting and Cinema: Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Michel Dion – Rousseau and Goethe: Developing Ethical Leadership and Promoting the Right Balance Between Reason and Sentiment
- Prabha Shankar Dwivedi – Ontology of Dialogic Inquisition: A Study in Relation to Kena and Prasna Upanisads, and Bergsonism
- Yanping Gao – Between Matter and Hand: On Gaston Bachelard’s Theory of Material Imagination
- Arkady Nedel – The Limits of the Circle: Master, Slave and Death in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
- Khedidja Chergui – Know Thyself: Patterns of Anagnorisis in the Dramatic Expression of Euripides, Shakespeare and Wole Soyinka
- Solomon Olaniyan & Gabriel Olaniyan – The Trope of Pensioners’ Plight in Gabriel Marquez’ No One Writes To The Colonel and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Trafficked
- Matti Itkonen – The Quintessential Kalastajatorppa: A Cinematic Journey into a Time and a Space
- Rocco A. Astore – Arguments Contrary to Spinoza’s View of Time and Free-Will through the Philosophy of Henri Bergson
- Amina Hussain – Theorising Post-truth: A Postmodern Phenomenon
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – Henry David Thoreau and the Metaphysics of Imagination
- Ankita Sundriyal – Admiration to Love, Love to Matrimony: A Russellian Reading of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
BOOK REVIEWS
- Prabha Shankar Dwivedi – A Student’s Handbook of Indian Aesthetics (Neerja A. Gupta)
- Sylvia Borissova – Politics and Aesthetics of the Female Form, 1908–1918 (Georgina Williams)
- Nandan Rosario & Sunaina Arya – A Philosophy of Autobiography: Body and Text (Aakash Singh Rathore)
FROM THE ARCHIVES