Vol. 49, No. 1, Spring 2026 [Regular Issue]
ARTICLES
- Andrew Ward – Aesthetic Reasons and Aesthetic Causes: Wittgenstein and Hume on Aesthetic Reactions
- Francesca Medaglia – The Power of Ethics in Complex Television Narration through Lamarque’s Studies
- Francesco Giuseppe Trotta – “That nothing which alone makes it possible for a something to be usable”: Benjamin, Kafka, and Daoism
- Stephen Chamberlain – Let’s Imagine a World in Which ….: The Problem of Fictive and Nonfictive Utterances in Literature
- Andy Zuliani – Retranslating Mallarmé: “Un Coup de Dés,” Concrete Poetry, and the Problem of Visual Translation
- George Cai – As Blissful in Heaven as Decadent in Hell: Salvations in Faust and Dorian Gray
- Max Parks – Distributed Imagination: AI-Generated Art and the Nature of Creative Capacity
- Hayley Phillips – Monstrous Maternity: The Archaic Mother in Frankenstein
- Yujia Flavia Jin – Historioludic Mimesis: Revisiting Auerbach in the Age of Historical Games
- Marcello Di Massa – A Resolute Thomas Bernhard
- Adrián Arana Armesto – Colonial Legacies and the Aesthetics of the Other in Dracula, The War of the Worlds, and The Crucible
- Ibtihel Ghourabi – Technologies of the Imaginary: Japan’s Transhistorical Imago in World Travel Writing
BOOK REVIEWS
- Ankit Rath – The Unraveling Heart: Women’s Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi. By Madhuri Deshmukh. NY: Columbia University Press, 2025. 360 pp.
- Alessio Porrino – The Critical Shusterman. By Richard Shusterman. NY: State University of New York Press, 2025. 428 pp.
- Bibhudatta Dash – The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita. By Ithamar Theodor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 210 pp.
- Syed Shamil Bokhari – The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70–Fall 1873) Volume 1. By Friedrich Nietzsche. Translated and Afterword by Sean D. Kirkland and Andrew J. Mitchell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2026. 762 pp.
- Niyati Bhat – Film as World Literature. By Thomas Oliver Beebee & Robin Truth Goodman (Eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 312 pp.
- Devika Brendon – Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean. By Nile Green (Ed.). Texas: University of Texas Press, 2026. 336 pp.
- Marcello Di Massa – The Tractatus, Wittgenstein’s Method and Analytic Philosophy. By Nikolay Milkov. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. 303 pp.
- Soni Wadhwa – Thinking Through Data. How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception. By Maja Bak Herrie. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025, 154 pp.
- Chayana Mondal – The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature. By Zhang Longxi and Omid Azadibougar (Eds). New York and London: Routledge, 2025. 423 pp.
- Sangeetha Puthiyedath – Imaginative Experience in the Arts: Promoting Liberal Education. By Charles Altieri. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 208 pp.
- Hajar Mahfoodh – The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan. By Todd McGowan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 194 pp.
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SPECIAL ISSUES
- Art, Imagination, and Affect
- A Festschrift for Peter Lamarque
- Aesthetics and Leisure: Historical, Intercultural, and Theoretical Perspectives
- (De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn
- 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.