Vol. 46, No. 4, Winter 2023 [Regular Issue]
ARTICLES
- Charles Altieri – Self-consciousness in Aesthetic Experience: Why Heidegger’s Book on Hegel Can Matter for Literary Criticism
- Kenichiro Otani – The Predilection for White and Black in Le Clézio’s Early Works
- Shun-Liang Chao – Answering the Question: How Can Music (and Some of the Arts) Be Sad?
- Puspa Damai – The Wounds of History and the Strategies for Survival in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
- Hapsatou Wane – Transglocal Fiction: Diasporic Poetics of Resistance in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power (1977) and Marilene Felinto’s As Mulheres de Tijucopapo (1981)
- Joshua M. Hall – Questions of Race in Leibniz’s Logic
- Chenyu Bu – Schopenhauerian Musical Formalism: Meaningfulness without Meaning
- Samuel Bendeck Sotillos – The Jewish Tradition and its Science of the Soul
- Zhiyao Ma – The Yinyang belief concatenation and Akrasia
- Sreya Mukherjee – The Paradox of Choice in Interactive Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Bandersnatch’s ‘Choose-Your-Own-Adventure’ Structure
- Rebecca J. Squires – Vedute of Venice: The Eighteenth-Century Venetian View as Picturesque Locus of Transformation
- Madhurima Nayak – “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”: A Study of Cultural Dissension in Pankaj Mishra’s The Romantics
- Elena Nardelli – The Time of Translation
- Francesca Medaglia – Transmediality vs. Intermediality in a Transcultural Context
- Rawad Alhashmi – Mapping Arabic Dystopian Novels: Double-Edged Sword
- Diganta Roy – Vampirism and Global Power Relations: A Study of the Fictive Histories in the Adaptations of Dracula
BOOK REVIEWS
- Sangeetha Puthiyedath – Literature, Education, and Society: Bridging the Gap. By Charles F. Altieri. UK: Routledge, 2023. 92 pp.
- Michael Barr – Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood. By Garry L. Hagberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 292 pp.
- Stuart Walton – Reading Baudelaire with Adorno: Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence. By Joseph Acquisto. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 193 pp.
- Stuart Walton – Without Model: Parva Aesthetica. By Theodor W. Adorno. Trans. Wieland Hoban. London: Seagull Books, 2023. 177 pp.
- Pankaj Kumar Verma – The Social Aesthetics of Human Environments: Critical Themes. By Arnold Berleant. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 204 pp.
- Sreelakshmi Renjith – Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion and Consolation. By Sudeep Sen. London: Pippa Rann Books and Media, 2021. 176 pp.
- Chi Derek Asaba – Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context: A Translation Studies Perspective. By Szu-Wen Kung. London, NY: Routledge, 2021. ix+137 pp.
- Soni Wadhwa – Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living. By Eva Kit Wah Man & Jeffrey Petts (Eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 296 pp.
- Ankita Sundriyal – Anger in the Long Nineteenth Century: Critical Perspectives. By Ritushree Sengupta and Shouvik N. Hore (Eds.). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. 203 pp.
- Ayan Chakraborty – Gandhi and the Idea of Swaraj. By Ramin Jahanbegloo. UK: Routledge, 2023. 125 pp.
- Sreya Mukherjee – The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata. By Nikhil Govind. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2022. 172 pp.
- Diksha Bharti – Dream Projects in Theatre, Novels and Films: The Works of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet, and Federico Fellini. By Yehuda Moraly. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2021. 224 pp.
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Vol. 46, No. 3, Autumn 2023
Special Issue: Popular Culture in India: Recent Trends and Discourses
- Aritra Basu – Introduction
- Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh – Search for Empathy: Poverty Porn Popular Culture in Indian Television
- Ananya Sarkar – Why Do You Keep Saying I’m A Boy When I’m A Girl?: Exploring Queer Desires, Identities, and Expressions in Indian Children’s Illustrated Fiction
- Debjani Sengupta – ‘It is the cause, my soul, it is the cause…’: Interrogating Race and Caste in the Bangla film Saptapadi
- Elwin Susan John – The Conflict of the Subaltern and the Popular in South Indian Indie Music
- Srijita Biswas and Pratiti Roy – Binge Watching, Binge Eating: Popularity of K-Dramas and the Emergent Korean Cuisine in India
- Aatika Singh – Analytics of Subaltern Performance: Subversion and Solidarity in Bengali Jatra Pala Gaan
- Ajay Pateer – Avengers, Algorithm, and Bhangra: MCU vids in India and Abroad
- Nakshatra Chatterjee – Return of the Alternative as the Popular: Nostalgia and the Music-making of Moheener Ghoraguli
- Aritra Basu – A Marvellous Addendum: Ethics of Collateral Damage in the Superheroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Notes on Contributors
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Vol. 46, No. 2, Summer 2023 [Supplement]
Special Issue: Imprisoned Self: Narratives of Loss, Guilt, Transformation
- Ayan Chakraborty – Introduction
- Makenzie Salmon – Carceral Alterity: No Friend But The Mountain, Border Theory and Power Relations as Modes of Articulating Embodiment Through Prison Memoirs
- Mauve Perle Tahat – Ghastly Renderings: Carceral Literary Studies and the Intricacies of Space-Time
- Amir Hussain – Prisoner-Self as Artist: The Narrative of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis
- Dhanesh Mankulam & Nivea Thomas K – ‘The Prison Within’: Analysing the Intersection of the Subject and the Social in Barindra Kumar Ghose’s The Tale of My Exile: Twelve Years in the Andamans
- Riswita Sarmah – The Quest for Selfhood in Anthony Burgess’ Dystopian Novel A Clockwork Orange
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Vol. 46, No. 2, Summer 2023 [Regular Issue]
In the loving memory of Prof. J. N. Mohanty (1928-2023), emeritus professor of philosophy, Temple University, USA
ARTICLES
- Keith Moser – The Spectacular Death of the Subject in Guy Debord’s Philosophy and Georges Perec’s Les Choses
- Matthew Sharpe – Creation Corrected: Philosophy, Rebellion, and Literature in the Work of Albert Camus
- Siddhartha Singh – The Theory of Imitation: A Comparative Study of Indian and Western Perspective
- Phillip E. Mitchell – Calls from Beyond: Transcendence in Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
- Segun Omosule – A Comparative Study of Conflict and Diplomacy in Ifa’s Ogbe-Suuru: The Yoruba Indigenous Metaphysics
- Margaryta Golovchenko – Images as Poetry in Caroline Bergvall’s Drift
- Priyadarshi Patnaik, Gouri Karambelkar, and Junmoni Borgohain – The Politics of Musical Identity: The Case of Bade and Chote Ragas of Hindustani Classical Music
- Tuhin Bhattacharjee – The Tragic in Translation: Spivakian Planetarity and a New Ethics of Reading
- Ayan Chakraborty – From the ‘Public’ and the ‘Oral’: Orature and Performance in the Medieval Indian ‘Public Sphere’
- Bullo Kano – Can a Machine be Intelligent?: Analysing Notions in AI Discourse
- Ananya Bhardwaj – Idea of Home and Estrangement in Attia Hossain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column
- Chandana Rajbanshi – Re-writing Colonial History: A Contrapuntal Reading of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine
- Radhika Gupta – Influencer of Estates: Women’s Reorientation of the Patriarchal Estates in Jane Austen’s Novels
NOTES AND DISCUSSION
- Sally T. N. Shao – On Construction and Transference: Landscripts from the Himalayan Journal in Pictogram Translation
- Fabio Tononi – Sophocles’ Antigone: Philosophy, Politics, and Psychoanalysis
BOOK REVIEWS
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – Atheism and the Goddess: Cross-Cultural Approaches with a Focus on South Asia. By Anway Mukhopadhyay. London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2023. 144 pp.
- Kenichiro Otani – Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era. By Keith Moser. London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2022. 262 pp.
- Fabio Tononi – Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation. By Byung-Chul Han. Trans. Daniel Steuer. Cambridge, UK; Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2022. 98 pp.
- Michael Barr – Literature and its Language: Philosophical Aspects. By Garry L. Hagberg. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 342 pp.
- Javaria Farooqui – South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English. By Roanne Kantor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 245 pp.
- Debasmita Tripathy – Thematizations of the Goddess in South Asian Cinema. By Anway Mukhopadhyay & Shouvik Narayan Hore (Eds.). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. 265 pp.
- Smitha Susan Varghese – Wittgenstein and Aesthetics. By Hanne Appelqvist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 74 pp.
- Ayan Chakraborty – The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction. By Scott R. Stroud. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 311 pp.
- Margaryta Golovchenko – Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters. By Dominic Lopes, Bence Nanay, & Nick Riggle. UK: Oxford University Press, 2022. 129 pp.
- Deepti Tiwari – The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities. By Jeffrey Cohen & Stephanie Foote (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 379 pp.
- Sushmita Pandit – Why Stories Work: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Roots of the Power of Narrative. By Somdev Chatterjee. Chennai: Notion Press, 2023. 112 pp.
- Soni Wadhwa – The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics. By Robert R. Clewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 288 pp.
- Sikander Khan & Ashir Khan – The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia. By Daniel Joseph Majchrowicz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 284 pp.
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Vol. 46, No. 1, Spring 2023
Dedicated to Prof. Jerrold Levinson on his 75th Birth Anniversary
SPECIAL ISSUE – Contemplating Music across Cultures and Contexts: Philosophical Perspectives
Guest Editor: Jonathan L. Friedmann
ARTICLES
- Saam Trivedi – The Work of Jerrold Levinson
- Jonathan L. Friedmann – Introduction
- Andrew Bowie – What’s the Point of the Philosophy/ Aesthetics of Music?
- Lantz Fleming Miller – Where Does Music End and Nonmusic Begin? Fine-tuning the “Naturalist Response” Problem for Nontonal Music’s Naturalistic Critics
- Stan Erraught – On the Redundancy of Music
- Timo Kaitaro and Assi Karttunen – Music as Gestural Language: Music and Speech in the French Enlightenment
- Patrick Valiquet – Vibration and Lysis: On the Skin of the Loudspeaker
- Jin Hyun Kim – Musicality of Coordinated Non-representational Forms of Vitality
- Daniel Regnier – More Variation than Theme: On Poikilia in Musical Aesthetics from Plato to Schoenberg
- Lacey Golaszewski – The Beauty-Utility Dialectic as Conceived in Terms of the Abject and the Sublime
- Patrik N. Juslin – Musical Performance Evaluation: Ten Insights from Psychological Studies of Aesthetic Judgment
- Jeanette Bicknell – Cover Versions: Ethics, Appropriation, and Expertise
- Julia Simon – A Blues Aesthetic: Performance Practice, Politics, and History
- Maurice Windleburn – French Symbolist Aesthetics and Hazrat Inayat Khan’s Musical Ontology
- James O. Young – Sizer on Sad Music
- Jonathan L. Friedmann – Experiential Aesthetics: Humility, Ineffability, and Music
- Andreas Dorschel – Phantasia: Epistemology into Music
- Mei-Yen Lee – Concept of Nature in the Musical Aesthetics of the Chinese Guqin
BOOK REVIEWS
- Jonathan L. Friedmann – The Dialectics of Music: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze. By Joseph Weiss. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 184 pp.
- Jonathan L. Friedmann – Music and Mental Imagery. By Mats B. Küssner, Liila Taruffi, & Georgia A. Floridou (Eds.). UK: Routledge, 2023. 293 pp.
- Judith S. Pinnolis – Music in Human Experience: Perspectives on a Musical Species. By Jonathan L. Friedmann. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022. 345 pp.
- Robert Lopez-Hanshaw – The Imagination of Experiences: Musical Invention, Collaboration, and the Making of Meanings. By Alan Taylor. UK: Routledge, 2021. 114 pp.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Vol. 45, No. 4, Winter 2022 (Regular Issue)
In the loving memory of our founding editor Ananta Charan Sukla (6 Nov 1942 – 30 Sep 2020) on his 80th Birth Anniversary
ARTICLES
- Rohit Majumdar – Tracing Distortion, Disoriented Reality and Berkeley’s Metaphysics in Hamlet and Beckett’s Plays: Aesthetic Perspectives
- Lantz Fleming Miller – Plato’s Aesthetic Adventure: The Symposium in the Broad Light of Comedy
- Fabio Tononi – The Night of Michelangelo: Animism, Empathy, and Imagination
- Yaping Lu – The Aestheticism of Posthuman Body in Science Fiction Movies
- Shun-liang Chao – “But irony seems to me to dominate life”: The Romantic Longing for Absolute Love in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
- Spencer Shaw – A Deleuzean Encounter: The Descent of Süskind’s “Das Parfum”
- Rania Saber Ahmed AbdelRahim – My Story and Crazy Brave: Unmasking Personas and Personalities
- Anil Pradhan – ‘La Chingada’ and ‘Machismo’: Mexican Male Homosexuality vis-à-vis Hypermasculinity in Octavio Paz’s The Labyrinth of Solitude
- Jessica Ruth Austin – Multiple Femininities and “Unruly Woman” as Theoretical Framework
- Alankar Das Dalal – The Discourse of Desire in the Construction of Identity: A Study of Harold Pinter’s Ruth in The Homecoming
- Mohamed El-Feky – The Romantic Perception of the Presence of God in Robinson Crusoe and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: A Comparative Reading
- Rocío Moyano Rejano – “I cannot rest while this history remains untold”: (Re)Shaping Ophelia in Lisa Klein’s and Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia
- Sally T.N. Shao – Gestures Without Words, Words Without Gestures: Ethnographic Artists as Translators
- Yang Xu – A Comparative Study of Images in Chinese-English Translation of Red Classics: A Manipulation Theory Perspective
- Amitrajeet Mukherjee – Bridges of Memory: The Form and Function of Fascist Aesthetics in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain
BOOK REVIEWS
- Stuart Walton – Adorno’s ‘Minima Moralia’ in the 21st Century: Fascism, Work, and Ecology. By Caren Irr (Ed.). London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 181 pp.
- Stuart Walton – Theodor W. Adorno: A Very Short Introduction. By Andrew Bowie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 152 pp.
- Michael Barr – Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher. By Nickolas Pappas. London & NY: Routledge, 2020. 302 pp.
- Michael Barr – Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy. By Andrew Bowie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 296 pp.
- Michael Barr – Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration. By Jay L. Garfield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 249 pp.
- Fabio Tononi – Philosophy, Mysticism, And The Political: Essays On Dante. By Massimo Cacciari. Edited and with an introduction by Alessandro Carrera. Translated by Giorgio Mobili. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2021. 185 pp.
- Anannya Nath – Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning. By Amrita Ghosh & Elizabeth Brewer Redwine (Eds.). Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL, 2022. 238 pp.
- Adoulou N. Bitang – An Introduction to Indian Aesthetics: History, Theory and Theoreticians. By Mini Chandran and Sreenath S. V. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2021. xii + 218 pp.
- Yang Xu – Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature: Imagined Landscapes and Real Lived Spaces. By Riccardo Moratto, Nicoletta Pesaro & Di-Kai Chao. London & New York: Routledge, 2022. 209 pp.
- Ragini Mishra – Tracing the Path of Yoga: The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline. By Stuart Ray Sarbacker. NY: State University of New York (SUNY) Press, 2021. 451 pp.
- Ayan Chakraborty – Politics, Ethics and the Self: Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj. By Rajeev Bhargava (Ed.). London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 353 pp.
- Ayan Chakraborty – Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India. By Akshya Saxena. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2022. 232 pp.
- Tongsheng Zhang – Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval China. By Yue Zhang. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022. xv+223 pp.
- Michael Spicher – Adorning Bodies: Meaning, Evolution, and Beauty in Humans and Animals. By Marilynn Johnson. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 150 pp.
- Diksha Bharti – Rabindranath Tagore’s Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre. By Mala Renganathan & Arnab Bhattacharya (Eds.). New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2020. 196 pp.
- Aritra Basu – Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony. By Rochona Majumdar. Columbia: Columbia University Press, 2021. 320 pp.
- Giulia Abbadessa – A Feminist Mythology. By Chiara Bottici. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 216 pp.
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Vol. 45, No. 3, Autumn 2022
In the loving memory of Prof. Indulata Sukla (1944-2022)
SPECIAL ISSUE – Writing Self, Writing Resistance: Women’s Life Writing in India
- Mukul Chaturvedi – Introduction
- Mohammed Afzal – Ḥayāt-e Ashraf: Agency, Resistance, and Muslim Women’s Life Writing in Colonial North India
- Shilpi Basak – Two Cheers for Colonial Modernity: Reading Societal Double-Standard and Assertive Femininity in Manada Devi’s Shikshita Potitar Atmochorit
- Paromita Bose – Narrating Lives: The Devadasi and Her Art
- Reshma Jose – Life Narratives of People with Disability in India: A Critical Discourse Analysis
- Tejaswini Deo – Self-Reflexivity in Dalit Women’s Life Narratives in Maharashtra
- Sumadhura Roy – Singing Songs, Narrating Lives: Desire and Dissent in Rajbangsi Women’s Folksongs
- Madhumita Roy – Science, Medicine, and Gender Politics in Colonial Bengal: A Reading of Gretchen Green’s Memoir The Whole World & Company
- Natasa Thoudam – Mary Kom’s Collaborative Autobiography: Negotiating Authorship
- Nazia Akhtar – “Bepardahgi” amid Social Taboo: Radical Acts of Narration in Bilquis Jehan Khan’s Autobiography A Song of Hyderabad (2010)
- Shubhra Ray – Privileging Non-Conformity as Self-Articulation: A Reading of Dilara Hashem’s Kaktaliyo
- Paramita Purkayastha – ‘…A Little Girl Who Owns a City and a River’: Girls on the Move During the 1971 War of Bangladesh in Lily Halder’s Bhanga Berhar Panchali and Sanchita Roy’s Ongar
- Shayantani Das – The Captive Body in Minakshi Sen’s Jeler Bhitor Jel
- Shubhra Dubey – Of Truth and Telling in Book Form: The Two-part Autobiographical Work of Maitreyi Pushpa
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Vol. 45, No. 2 (Suppl.), Summer 2022
Dedicated to Prof. Charles Altieri on his 80th Birth Anniversary
SPECIAL ISSUE – (Con)textual Strategies: Understanding and Interpretation
- Ton Kruse – Introduction
- Charles Altieri – Can Literary Studies be Restored to What They once Were in the University?
- Ton Kruse – Working Art: Thinking, Acting and Knowing
- Thijs Lijster – The Autonomy of Interpretation
- Beatriz Contreras Tasso – Narrative as Action: Paul Ricœur and the Emancipatory Power of Interpretation
- Marieke Maes – Testimonies of Hope: Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics Applied to Works by Lee Bontecou
- Ariel Alvarez – Dada and Music: Tackling Musical Conventions
- Peter-Jan Wagemans – Let’s Listen to the Listener
- Bowen Wang – Metafiction towards a Literary Hyperreality: Postmodernist Textual Strategies in Martin Amis’s Money
- Kinya Nishi – The Dialectics of Realist Imagination: Adorno’s Aesthetics and Contemporary Japanese Fiction
- Basudhara Roy – ‘Paapi Bicchua’: Transactions of Desire in Nissim Ezekiel’s ‘Night of the Scorpion’
FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Vol. 45, No. 2, Summer 2022 [Regular Issue]
Dedicated to Prof. Martha Nussbaum on her 75th Birth Anniversary
ARTICLES
- Thomas Leddy – Milk and Honey: Plato’s Take on Inspiration in the Ion
- Rohit Majumdar – Imaginarium of Aesthetics and Poetic Language: Reconciling Axiomatic Thoughts and Semiotics of the Abstract through Representation and Deconstruction
- Michalle Gal – The Inauguration of Formalism: Aestheticism and the Productive Opacity Principle
- R. B. Schwartz – A Metaphysical Approach to Yijing Hexagram Interpretation: Fundamental Aspects of Change
- Xiongbo Shi – Pin as a Value Matrix in Chinese Aesthetics
- Claudia Zucca – The Origins of Translingualism: From Classical to Contemporary Literatures in Contact
- Namrata Chaturvedi – Aesthetic Affect of Anger: Omair Ahmad’s Jimmy the Terrorist and the Possibilities in Raudra Rasa
- Nigel Rodenhurst – The Spirit of Walden: Art, Asceticism and Coercion in Paul Auster’s Early Fiction
- Zaynab Ali – Occupying Absence: Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence as a Cosmopolitan Space
- Rea Hazra – Guilt: A Space of Liminality and Dialogism in Dostoevskian Aesthetics
- Sabina Akram – Austen, Adaptation and the Subcontinent: Postcolonial Critique in Bride and Prejudice and Austenistan
- Ananya Bhardwaj – Postcolonialism and the Historical Novel: Tracing Nur Jahan in Contemporary Historical Accounts and Fictions
- Basudhara Roy – An Ontology of Permeability: Tracing Radical Nonduality in the Poetry of Nabina Das
- Isabel Hernández-Gil – Reforming Representation from Plato to Godard
- Bilahari P. R. – Analysing the Anglo-Indian Identity: An Adolescent’s Quest for Belonging in Ruskin Bond’s The Room on the Roof
BOOK REVIEWS
- Stuart Walton – Adorno’s Aesthetics as a Literary Theory of Art (2020). By Mario Farina.
- P. Mary Vidya Porselvi – The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore (2020). By Sukanta Chaudhuri (Ed.).
- Ayan Chakraborty – Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone (2020). By Madhumita Lahiri.
- Zaynab Ali – Islam and Asia: A History (2020). By Chiara Formichi.
- Anwesha Sahoo – From Obscurity to Light: Women in Early Medieval Orissa (2020). By Devika Rangachari.
- Mukulika Dattagupta – Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature (2020). By Marade Gennaro.
- Sreenath V. S. – Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s Abhijñanasakuntalam (2020). By Namrata Chaturvedi (Ed.).
- Prafulla Kumar Mishra – Tarunyasatakam of Kshirod Chandra Dash (2021). By Subhasree Dash.
- Simran Bhimjyani – The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics (2021). By Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll (Eds.).
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Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring 2022
Dedicated to Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her 80th Birth Anniversary
SPECIAL ISSUE – Untranslatability: A Problem, or a Practice?
- Emily Apter – Tasks of the Spivakian Translator
- Lisa Foran – An Ethical Suspension of the Political: Untranslatability with Beauvoir and Cassin
- Brian James Baer – Untranslatability and the Cold War: Theory in Context
- Byron Taylor – Untranslatability: The Rebirth of Theory?
- Alex Obrigewitsch – How is Translation Possible?: The Secret of Maurice Blanchot
- Ayan Chakraborty – Translating The Nation: Of Meaning and the Mythic
- Tyler Correia – Disapparition I: The National Idiom and the Translatability of Culture
- Chris Campanioni – Silence as Noise: The Resistance of Translation; Translation as Resistance
- Tuhin Bhattacharjee – Translating Matricide: Orestes and Parashuram
- Seema Sinha – The Indefiniteness of Textuality
- Rea Hazra – Dereification of the Politics of Untranslatability and Interminability
- Sonji Shah – Queer Untranslatability in Cereus Blooms at Night
- Vandana L. – Rethinking Translation and Publication Politics: Dalit Writings in English Translation as World Literature
- Abhinaba Chatterjee – The (Many) Worlds of World Literature: Redefining World Literature in the Context of Untranslatability
- Luis Monteiro – Figuring out the Untranslatable: Traces of Twombly
- Eesha Kumar – Triśaṅku’s Heaven: Translation Zone
- Aaron Carpenter – Tied to German, Unable to Find a Foothold in Yiddish: Examining Kafka Editing Choices of Yitzhak Löwy’s ‘Vom jüdischen Theater’
- Ibrahim Badshah – Translation Theory and Praxis in East and West: The Case of Saud Al-Sanousi’s Saaq al-Bamboo
- Wang Chutong – Translation as Mirroring: Untranslatability and How to Deal with It
- Sabina Folnovic Jaitner – Dasein in Translation: Untranslatable as Equivalence?
- Sheng-mei Ma – The Subtitle that Wags the Show: The Untranslated and One Second’s Cultural Revolution
- Natalia Avtonomova – Notes on Translation and Untranslatability in Philosophy and Culture (Russia and Europe)
- Anna Ferrari – The Untranslatability of a Private Code: John Weir’s Eddie Socket and AIDS Camp Humour
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Vol. 44, No. 4, Winter 2021
SPECIAL ISSUE – Telling Lives, Signifying Selves: Life Writing, Representation, and Identity
- Mukul Chaturvedi – Introduction
- Debjani Sengupta – One Who Stayed Back: Sunanda Shikdar’s Partition Memoir Dayamoyeer Katha
- Kritika Chettri – Reformulating the Notion of ‘Life’ within Life Narratives through a Reading of Tek Nath Rizal’s Nirbasan
- Vijaya Venkataraman – Inhabiting In-Between Spaces: Fractured Identities and Self-representation in Najat El Hachmi’s Writings
- Leisangthem Gitarani Devi – Writing Lives, Re-membering History in Easterine Kire’s Mari
- Snigdha Deka and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar – Re-imagining a Muslim Courtesan as a Virangana vis-a-vis Kenize Mourad’s In the City of Gold and Silver (2013)
- Mukul Chaturvedi – In Other Words: Collaboration and it’s (Dis)Contents in Elena Poniatowska’s Here’s to You, Jesusa
- B. Mangalam – Life Narratives as Documentation of a Community: A Reading of K.A. Gunasekaran’s Vadu and the Context of Tamil Dalit Life Narratives
- Raj Kumar – Stories of Two Gandhians: Reading Caste and Gender in Odia Autobiographies
- Krishnan Unni P. – Addressing Identity: Ethical Virulence and ‘Becoming an Animal’ in Bhanwar Meghwanshi’s I Could Not Be Hindu
- Lucia Galli – Death-Travelers, Buddhas, and Comics: The Graphic Memoir of an American Delok
- Rachael Griffiths – Beyond Fact and Fiction: Towards a Multifaceted Understanding of Tibetan Autobiography
- Meenakshi Malhotra – Inscribing the True Self, Re-inscribing Masculinities: Experiments with Gender in Gandhi’s Writings and Life Narrations
- Federico Picerni – My Story of Us: A Comparative Analysis of Alberto Prunetti and Fan Yusu’s Working-Class Life Writing
- Kim Schoof – Renegotiating Narrative Coherence: Édouard Louis’ Autobiographical Novel History of Violence as “Multidirectional Testimony” of Sexual Trauma
- Ipek Sahinler – Baroque Cross-Dressers in the Orient: Severo Sarduy and Pierre Loti
- Michael Humphrey and Elias Gbadamosi – The ‘Imagined Author’: Contingent Selves in an Anonymous Life Writing Subreddit
- Fatima Rizvi – Fiction or Fictional Life Stories? Reading Qurratulain Hyder’s Beyond the Stars and Other Stories against her Life Writings
- Chandana Dutta – Joginder Paul: The Inextricable Collaboration of Life and Writing
- Paul Deb – “Did This Really Happen?”: Amit Chaudhuri’s Acknowledgement of the Autobiographical
- Ruchi Sharma – A Portrait of the Artist as a Social Reformer: Nirala’s A Life Misspent and “Chaturi, the Shoemaker”
- Tais de Lacerda – Life Writing and the Poetics of Temporal Experience in Woolf and Sartre
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Vol. 44, No. 3 (Suppl.), Autumn 2021
SPECIAL ISSUE – Immaterial and Material Discourse
- Ikea M. Johnson – Introduction
- Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi – An Ontology of Nothingness: From a Matrixial Dialectic to a Multivalent Ontology of Matrixial Materialism, Endo/Interior-Relation Toward an Ontological Multivalence Versus Substantive Immaterialism
- Sean Patrick Collins – The Arrival of Ecological Objects: Materiality in the Anthropocene
- Asher Ashkar Gohar – Truth as the Essence of Beauty in Tagore’s Play Chitra
- Ikea M. Johnson – Toward a Poetic Justice: (Im)material Antiquity in the Works of Albery Allson Whitman
- Renjini Ramankutty – Ritual Subversions in Medieval Kerala: Reading N.S. Madhavan/s “Pulapedi” as a Cultural Text
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Vol. 44, No. 3, Autumn 2021
In loving memory of Ananta Charan Sukla (1942-2020) on his first death anniversary
SPECIAL ISSUE – Philosophical Engagements with Cinema
ARTICLES
- Feroz Hassan – Introduction: An Unfinished Business of Film Theory and Philosophy
- Nickolas Pappas – Spike Jonze’s Her: Love and the Science Fiction Film
- Thomas E. Wartenberg – From Big Shot to Parent: Penny Serenade’s Depiction of Moral Transformation
- Ioannis Paraskevopoulos – Guy Debord’s Ex-centric Cinema: The Concept of Time and the Voice-Over Narration in his Films
- Feroz Hassan – Philosophy leaves the Movie Theater: Or, Stanley Cavell at the Doors of a Discipline
- Thomas Wachtendorf – For nothing is concealed! Motion picture, Wittgenstein, and seeing-as
- Shawn Loht – Engaging Husserl’s Theory of Meaning for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
- Frank Broadman – The Fictional Film
- Michael Newell Witte – Inspiration for a Libidinal Cinema: Klossowski, Lyotard, and the Tableau Vivant
- Paolo Babbiotti and Isabel Hernández-Gil – Color and Meaning in Film: An Argument from Irony
- Katarzyna Weichert – Phenomenology of Film Experience in relation to Corporeal Involvement in the World
- David Fenner – On the Evolution of Film Theory and Aesthetics
BOOK REVIEWS
- Tirna Chatterjee – Film, Music, Memory. By Berthold Hoeckner
- Tirna Chatterjee – Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women: Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema. By Maud Ceuterick
- Tirna Chatterjee – Ritwik Ghatak and the Cinema of Praxis: Culture, Aesthetics and Vision. By Diamond Oberoi Vahali
- Aritra Basu – Explorations in Cinema through Classical Indian Theories: New Interpretations of Meaning, Aesthetics, and Art. By Gopalan Mullik
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Vol. 44, No. 2, Summer 2021
SPECIAL ISSUE – Indian Writing in English: Perspectives on the Plural Nationspace
ARTICLES
- Arunima Ray – Prefatory Note & Introduction
- Beerendra Pandey – Nailing Gandhi for Cracking India in Manohar Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges and Raj Gill’s The Rape
- Anjana Neira Dev – Talking Long Distance to the Dead: Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetic Genealogy
- Raj Kumar – The Progressive and Untouchable Body: A Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable
- Arti Minocha – English Language and Transnational Networks: A Study of Colonial Punjab
- Jasbir Jain – Dialogues Across Time: Omair Ahmad’s The Storyteller’s Tale
- Benil Biswas – Between Ekstasis, Ekphrasis and Kinesis: Theatricality and Performativities in the Poetry of Meena Kandasamy
- Watitula Longkumer – Little Nationalities: Writing in English in the North-East
- Soumyadeep Neogi and Anil Kumar Aneja – Curfewed Night and the Emergence of the Kashmiri Anglophone Resistance Literature
- Sabreen Ahmed – The Spatial Politics in the Craft of Postcolonial Indian Muslim Women Novelists: Reading Shama Futehally’s Tara Lane, Samina Ali’s Madras in Rainy Days and Anjum Hasan’s The Cosmopolitans
- Muhammad Manzur Alam – Women and Sensorial Hegemony in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices
- Rita Joshi – Labour and Migrant Labour in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
- Usha Akella – Matwaala: Birth of a South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival and Collective
- Poonam Sharma – The Nation-state and the Indian English Novel in the Aftermath of Economic Liberalization in India
- Musarrat Shameem – Renegotiating Diasporic Identity: A Transnational Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
- Pramila Venkateswaran – Challenging Brahminical Patriarchy: The Poetry of Meena Kandasamy and Usha Akella
- Pujarinee Mitra – Women and Anti-fascist Resistance in India: Personal Documentation in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
- Anne Jones – Melting Façades: Ice-Candy Man and the Spatial Production of Hira Mandi in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India
- Nupur Chawla – Tribes in Transition: Representation of Conflict in Temsula Ao’s Short Fiction
- Amrita Chakraborti – ‘Folded in a Pocket’: Negotiating ‘Past’ Texts for Same-Sex Desire Between Women in Saba Dewan’s Tawaifnama and Ruth Vanita’s Memory of Light
- Swagata Bhattacharya – Re-defining ‘Can. Lit.’ or ‘Indian Writing in English’? English Writings and the Indian Diaspora in Canada
- Arpita Sardar – Secularism Under Threat: Reading Githa Hariharan’s In Times of Siege
- Abantika Devray – Writing Violence in Postcolonial Assam Ethno-Nationalism and Armed Insurgency in Contemporary Works of Fiction
- Notes on Contributors
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Vol. 44, No. 1, Spring 2021 [Regular Issue]
In the Loving Memory of Prof. Sushil K. Saxena (1921-2013) 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
- Ritushree Sengupta – Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora: Interpreting Gender, Texts and Contexts. By Ajay K. Chaubey and Shilpa Daithota Bhat
- Shouvik Narayan Hore – K. B. Goel: Critical Writings on Art 1957-1998. By Shruti Parthasarathy (Ed.)
- 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– A Living Islamic City: Fez and Its Preservation. By Titus Burckhardt, Jean-Louis Michon & Joseph A. Fitzgerald (Eds.). Jane Casewit (Trans.)
- Samuel Bendeck Sotillos – The Unhindered Path: Ruminations on Shin Buddhism. By John Paraskevopoulos
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Vol. 44, No. 1 (Suppl.), Spring 2021
SPECIAL ISSUE – 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 (Suppl.), Autumn 2020
SPECIAL ISSUE – 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
In Fond Memory of our Founding Editor Prof. Ananta Charan Sukla (1942-2020)
SPECIAL ISSUE: Asking and Answering the Sublime Question: Visions, Views, Vitalities
- 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
In the Loving Memory of Prof. P. S. Sastri (1920-2006) on his Birth Centenary
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
Dedicated to Prof. Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) on his 75th Birth Anniversary
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
Dedicated to Prof. Jonathan Culler (Cornell University) on his 75th Birth Anniversary
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