Forthcoming

Vol. 47, No. 3, Autumn 2024
SPECIAL ISSUE – Advances in Neuroaesthetics: Narratives and Art as Windows into the Mind and the Brain
Guest Editors: Franziska Hartung (Newcastle University, UK) and Buddhika Bellana (Glendon, York University Toronto, Canada)

ARTICLES

  • Franziska Hartung & Buddhika Bellana – Introduction
  • Brendan Cohn-Sheehy – Narrative Memories Woven by an Intertextual Hippocampus
  • Marloes Mak & Myrthe Faber – From Words to Worlds: Individual Differences in Processing, Experiencing and Liking Stories
  • Bien Klomberg, Joost Schilperoord, Neil Cohn – Constructing Domains in Visual Narratives: Structural Patterns of Incongruity Resolution
  • Claire Woodward & Taylor Woodward  – Of Mice and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Interconnectedness of Pain, Stress, and Suffering
  • Rose Turner – Fiction, Empathy, and the Material World
  • Sarah Bro Trasmundi & Karin Kukonnen – Aisthesis, Aesthetics and Cognition: Embodiments in Reading
  • Dionigi Mattia Gagliardi, Giulia Torromino, Salvatore Gaetano Chiarella, Manuel Focareta, Sara Cuono, Federica Marenghi – Art as a Supranormal Stimulus? Proposal for an Integrated Perspective Bridging Art with Neuroscience
  • Sade Abiodun & Luke J Nickel – Art_ificial Intelligence: Dreams, Data, and Neuroaesthetics in the Age of AI
  • Kohinoor Darda & Anjan Chatterjee – Cross-cultural Aesthetics: Can Aesthetic Contextualism overcome the Ingroup Bias?

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Vol. 47, No. 4, Winter 2024 (Regular Issue)

ARTICLES

  • Keith Moser – The Biosemiosic Gaze of the Derridean “Wholly Other” in Yamen Manaï’s Bel Abîme
  • Phillip E. Mitchell – Blues Brothers: The Dionysian and Apollonian in Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”
  • Giulia Cervato – ‘Idols that Have Mouths but Do Not Speak’: Levinas’ Critique of Art between Platonism and Jewish Aniconism
  • Avril Tynan – Footprints, Movement, and ‘the Road We’re Already On’: From Robinson Crusoe (1719) to Oryx and Crake (2003)
  • Yang Xu – Mutual Mirroring between East and West: An Imagological Analysis of 二马 (Mr. Ma and Son)
  • Shouvik Narayan Hore – Biblical Intertextuality, Nissim Ezekiel and the Jungian “Enterprise”
  • Maria Clara Menezes – Beneath the flower beds: A Comparative Reading of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) and Barbey d’Aurevilly’s “Le Dessous de cartes d’une partie de whist” (1874)
  • Sinjan Goswami – The Excremental as Ethical?: Reading and Representing Violence in J.M.Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
  • Anees Mohd. AlNajjar – The Role of John Keats’ Poetry and Negative Capability in the Cultivation of Readers’ Taste: An Aesthetic Study
  • Felicia A. Soskin – Post-colonialism in Allende’s Daughter of Fortune and Murakami’s Norwegian Wood
  • Samuel Bendeck Sotillos – Modern Psychology and the Loss of Transcendence
  • Shobha Elizabeth John – “Poet, be seated at the piano”: The Imperative of Change and the Sounds of Music in the Poems of Wallace Stevens
  • Pallavi Singh and Dhara Chotai – A Tale of a Cabinet Obscene: Tailoring the Kehbi
  • Swarnika Ahuja – ‘Art in the Time of Censorship’: The Subversive Politics of Toshio Saeki’s Art

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Michael R. SpicherThe Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics (Paperback). By Maxine Leeds Craig (Ed.). UK: Routledge, 2023. 404 pp.
  • Gautam ChoubeyColonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters. By Baidik Bhattacharya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 302 pp.
  • Soni WadhwaThree Encounters: Heidegger, Arendt, Derrida. By David Farrell Krell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. 360 pp.
  • Najah MahmiThe Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form. By Terry Eagleton. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2024. 219 pp.
  • Shouvik Narayan HoreMilton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century (Classical Presences). By Thomas Matthew Vozar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 224 pp.
  • Prateek SharmaThe Idea of Indian Literature: Gender, Genre, and Comparative Method. By Preetha Mani. Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2022. 288 pp.
  • Rania S. AhmedFemale Voices and Egyptian Independence: Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction. By Rania M. Mahmoud. UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 192 pp.
  • Margaryta GolovchenkoA Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art. By Mark Staff Brandl. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 241 pp.
  • Sindhu PoudyalLevinas on the Primacy of the Ethical: Philosophy as Prophecy. By Jeffrey Bloechl. Northwestern University Press, 2022. 208 pp.
  • Sindhu PoudyalMetatranslation: Essays on Translation and Translation Studies. By Theo Hermans. UK: Routledge, 2023. 233 p.
  • Sinjan Goswami In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus’ Trilogy. By Stephen Mulhall. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 132 pp.

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SPECIAL ISSUES

  • On the Condition of Language: Translation & Philosophy
  • Art and Emotion: Philosophical Engagements with Painting
  • Understanding and Enjoyment in Aesthetic Experience
  • Perspectives in Contemporary Critical Theory
  • Reception of Sanskrit Studies in the 19th Century European Ideology
  • Painting and Poetry: New Accents

The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics publishes special volumes on themes of current critical interest and contemporary relevance. Some of the special issues published in the past include “Deconstruction in Contemporary Criticism” (1985), “Representation in Contemporary Criticism” (1986), “Frankfurt School of Aesthetics” (1988), “Prague School of Structuralism” (1991), “Indian Aesthetics and Contemporary Theory” (1992), “Italian Aesthetics since Croce” (1993), “Aesthetics Today” (1994), “Environmental Aesthetics” (1995), etc. The Journal welcomes proposals for possible special issues at any time.